Scotia Group pushed market down on Thursday.
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange suffered from declining stocks beating out rising ones by a wide margin, at the close on Thursday, driving the market indices down, in the process.
Scotia Group fell $2 resulting from a weakened profit performance for the nine months to July. The All Jamaica Composite Index declined 1,270.96 points to close at 287,083.45, the JSE Market Index fell by 1,157.99 points to 261,565.51 and the JSE US dollar market index rose 3.27 points to 185.79.
At the close of trading, 21 securities changed hands in the main market with 2 trading in the US dollar market, leading to 7 stocks advancing and 11 declining. Radio Jamaica and Sterling Investments fell to 52 weeks’ lows at the close.
Main market trading ended with 5,966,372 units valued at $106,313,754 changing hands compared to 2,294,338 units valued at $32,081,246 at the close on Wednesday. The US dollar market accounted for 307,047 units valued at US$75,251 bringing the total of all trades to J$116,171,637.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and US dollar markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
The main market ended trading with an average of 284,113 units valued at $5,062,560 for each security traded compared to an average of 84,975 units valued at $1,188,194. The average volume and value for the month to date ended at 178,706 units with an average value of $3,303,275 compared with an average of 166,995 units with an average value of $3,124,346 on the previous trading day. The average volume and value for August ended at 184,094 units with an average value of $4,336,090.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Thursday with 19 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 2,134,693 units valued at $9,319,098 compared to 814,637 units valued at $3,966,483 on Wednesday. 
August closed with average of 234,437 units valued at $1,295,260 for each security traded.
General Accident concluded trading 20 cents higher at $3, with 14,580 stocks, Honey Bun lost 60 cents to land at $3.90, with 429,925 stocks, Jamaican Teas settled at $4, with 78,776 units, Jetcon Corporation finished with a loss of 13 cents at $4.26, with 222,203 stocks trading, Key Insurance closed with a loss of 25 cents at $3.75, with 23,900 units, after it traded at an intraday high of $4.10. KLE Group concluded trading at $2.50, with 31,422 shares, Lasco Distributors closed at $6.79, with 21,697 shares, Lasco Financial settled 5 cents higher at $4.05, with 144,903 stocks changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing ended 60 cents higher at $4.60, with 350,000 stock units, Medical Disposables closed at $5, with 28,923 shares, Main Event ended 50 cents higher at $6, with 76,415 units, as investors continued to respond to positive nine months results, Paramount Trading concluded trading at $2.90, with 77,817 shares and Stationery and Office ended at $4.80, with 5,510 shares.
Kingston Wharves ended with a loss of 2 cents, at $30.48 with 700 units, Mayberry Investments closed at $4.80, gaining 30 cents with 168,080 shares, NCB Financial Group surged $2.45 to $90 with 9,494 units, 1834 Investments traded 230,583 units at $4.75. PanJam Investment with gains of 40 cents, closed at $34.25 with 103,619 shares, Portland JSX closed at $9.30 with 950 units, Pulse Investments fell 7 cents, to $1.75 with 31,081 shares, Radio Jamaica closed at $1.20 with 243,587 units, Sagicor Group added 20 cents to close at $33.25 with 28,717 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund closed at $11 with 5,150 units, Salada Foods ended with a loss of 50 cents, to close at $8 trading 1,500 shares, Scotia Group gained $1 to $54, in exchanging 58,264 stock units, Seprod advanced $1.25 to $29.25 with 750 units, Sterling Investments ended at $12 with 61,000 shares, Supreme Ventures added 10 cents to $11 with 358,560 shares. Proven Investments US ordinary shares exchanged 1,606 units at 23 US cents, JMMB Group 7.25% preference share closed at $1.50 with 361 units and JMMB Group 7.5% preference share traded 1,435 units at $1.19 after losing 1 cent.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Wednesday with 20 securities changing hands, but with vastly lower volume and value of units than on Tuesday. 
At the close of the market the volume of stocks changing hands and their last traded price are: Access Financial trading 2,429 shares at a loss of 50 cents to $46.50, AMG Packaging concluded trading with a loss of 34 cents at $3.14, with 6,000 shares, Caribbean Cream concluded trading 20 cents higher at $6.35, with 17,816 stocks changing hands, Caribbean Producers finished at $3.75, with 25,000 shares, Dolphin Cove lost $3.80 to end at $13.20, with 7,277 stock units, Derrimon Trading finished with a loss of $1.05 at $7, with 4,500 units, Express Catering finished at $4.60, with 27,947 stocks trading, General Accident closed with a loss of 4 cents at $2.80, with 34,950 shares, 
Honey Bun closed at $4.50, with 3,483 units, ISP Finance concluded trading with a loss of 5 cents at $19.95, with 2,916 stock units, Jamaican Teas finished at $4, with 204,059 shares, Jetcon Corporation concluded trading 1 cent higher at $4.39, with 35,309 shares, Key Insurance settled at $4, with 25,621 stocks, Knutsford Express traded at $15, with 5,258 stock units, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 1 cent at $6.79, with 700 units, Lasco Financial finished with a loss of 5 cents at $4, with 7,403 stocks changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing settled with a loss of 8 cents at $4, with 36,978 shares, Main Event jumped 94 cents higher to $5.50, with 359,831 stocks after the company reported strong increase in profits for the nine months to July of $101 million versus $60 million in 2016. Paramount Trading finished at $2.90, with 1,770 units and Stationery and Office concluded trading 30 cents higher at $4.80, with 5,390 shares.
The main market ended with 2,309,285 units valued at $75,635,060 changing hands compared to 4,726,576 units valued at $111,468,464 at the close on Monday. Trading in the US dollar market accounted for 70,247 units valued at US$16,047 bringing the total of all trades to J$77,705,099.
amaica Producers traded 15 cents lower to $14.75 with 13,083 units, JMMB Group closed at $21, losing 50 cents in exchanging 532,303 shares. Kingston Properties closed at $7 trading 3,000 units, Kingston Wharves ended with a loss of 30 cents, closed at $30.50 with 24,747 shares while NCB Financial dropped $2.45 to $87.55 with 171,811 shares. Portland JSX rose 5 cents to $9.30 with 2,115 units, Sagicor Group added 5 cents to close at $33.05 with 4,525 units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund closed $1.05 lower to $11 with 4,420 units, Scotia Group dropped to $53, having lost $2 trading 251,107 shares, Supreme Ventures with gains of 10 cents, closed at $10.90 with 960 units. Proven Investments US ordinary share fell 0.99 US cents in exchanging 70,247 units at 23 US cents, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.5% preference share closed at $2 with 100 units and 138 Student Living variable preference share traded 100 units at $5.68.
Trading ended with an average of 108,419 units for an average of $483,277 in contrast to 160,460 units for an average of $1,077,814 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to units 169,320 valued at $728,534 and on Monday 178,020 at an average value of $763,571. In contrast, August closed with average of 234,437 units valued at $1,295,260 for each security traded.
Eppley ordinary ended at $12, with 2,994 shares, Honey Bun ended 60 cents higher at $4.50, with 1,540 units, Jamaican Teas finished at $4, with 94,960 stocks being exchanged, Jetcon Corporation concluded trading with a loss of 12 cents to $4.38, with 1,106,601 stocks, Knutsford Express closed at $15, with 10,941 units, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 10 cents at $6.80, as 81,632 shares were traded, Lasco Financial settled 30 cents higher at $4.05, with 231,201 stocks, Lasco Manufacturing traded at $4.08, with 14,250 shares, Medical Disposables settled at $5, with 3,012 units. Main Event traded 1 cents higher at $4.56, with 84,565 stock units, Stationery and Office finished with a loss of 30 cents at $4.50, with 372,562 units, tTech finished 60 cents higher at $7.60, with 3,811 shares and Eppley 9.5% preference share finished 5 cents up at $7.25, with 2,855 stock units.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and US dollar markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
PanJam Investment added 35 cents to close at $33.85 with 18,041 shares, Pulse Investments fell 3 cents to close at $1.82 with 7,245 units, Radio Jamaica closed at $1.20 after losing 5 cents in exchanging 350,693 shares. Sagicor Group traded 25 cents lower to $33 with 23,198 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund advanced $1.45 to $12.05 with 639 stocks trading, Salada Foods traded 1,000 shares at $8.50, Scotia Group closed $5 lower to $55 with 59,365 stock units, Scotia Investments gained 30 cents to close at $37.30 with 1,830,050 shares, Seprod declined $1.90, closing at $28 with 560,300 stocks changing hands, Sterling Investments closed at $12 with 511,200 shares and Supreme Ventures ended with a loss of 20 cents at $10.80 with 106,855 units. Proven Investments US ordinary share gained 0.99 US cent to close at 23 US cents trading 15,750 units, Productive Business Solution US ordinary share closed at 60 US cents with 1,000 units exchanged, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.25% preference share lost 1 cent, closing at $2.50 with 2,272 units and Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.5% preference share exchanged 1,500 units at $2.
