The USD Equities market was the best performing of the three Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) markets, with gains of 23.56 percent, in the first quarter of this year, driven mainly as a result of a 44 percent jump in Transjamaican Highway USD stock price and a 29 percent rise in AS Bryson US dollar listing. The 2026 performance is compares with a 10.7 percent contraction in the first quarter last year.

Jamaica Stock Exchange Indices at the end of March 2026 vs December 2025

The JSE Main Market closed the first quarter of 2026 on a notably positive note, mainly driven by 722 percent jump in the price of late 2025 listed West Indies Petroleum, with the JSE Index advancing 8.83 percent from 317,986.88 at the close of 2025, to 346,079.71 at the end of March, this year, compared to a decline of 1.7 percent in 2025 for the same period.. The All Jamaican Composite Index performed even more strongly, rising 11.91 percent over the same period from 365,314.38 to 408,845.09. In the 2025 first quarter it fell 1.3 percent.

The Junior Market Index edged up 0.21 percent from 3,401.41 at the end of December, 2025, to 3,408.64 at the close of March, 2026, while the market slipped 1.6 percent in the 2025
first quarter.