The Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market closed on Tuesday, with the volume of stocks traded declining 29 percent with a 53 percent lower value than on Monday, resulting from an exchange of 10 securities, compared with nine on Monday with prices of two rising, three declining and five ending unchanged.
The market closed with an exchange of 373,308 shares for US$25,625 down from 524,976 stocks at US$54,479 on Monday.
Trading averaged 37,331 shares at US$2,563 much lower than the 58,331 stocks at US$6,053 on Monday, with the month to date averaging 172,262 stock units at US$7,419 compared with 188,519 stocks at US$8,004 on the previous day and January that ended with an average of 103,137 units for US$4,549.
The US Denominated Equities Index declined 1.54 points to close at 215.15. The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows three stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and none with a lower offer.
The PE Ratio, one of the best known measures to determine appropriate stock values, averages 7.1. The PE ratio is calculated based on last traded prices divided by projected earnings, computed by ICInsider.com for companies with financial year ending around August 2025.
At the close, First Rock Real Estate USD share ended at 3.29 US cents after investors exchanged 4,000 stock units, Productive Business Solutions remained at US$1.37 with a transfer of 31 shares, Proven Investments skidded 0.04 of a cent to 11.29 US cents with 16,806 units clearing the market. Sterling Investments gained 0.15 of a cent to close at 1.88 US cents with traders dealing in 18,466 stocks, Sygnus Credit Investments ended at 7 US cents after 1,500 shares crossed the market and Transjamaican Highway slipped 0.02 of a cent and ended at 2.64 US cents with investors trading 325,095 units.
In the preference segment, JMMB Group US8.5% preference share lost 11.98 cents to end at US$1.0402 with 500 stocks changing hands, JMMB Group 5.75% rose 5 cents to end at US$2.05 closing with an exchange of 6,895 stock units, Productive Business Solutions 9.25% preference share remained at US$10.60 after a transfer of 5 units and Sygnus Credit Investments E8.5% remained at US$9.95 with 10 stocks crossing the market.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.

Trading surged on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market on Monday, with a 5,798 percent spike in the volume of stocks traded at a 356 percent greater value than on Friday, following an exchange of more than 11.3 million units of Transjamaican Highway after an exchange of nine securities, compared with eight on Friday with prices of two rising, five declining and two ending unchanged and resulting in the US Denominated Equities Index dropping 11.25 points to 228.70.
The market closed with an exchange of 192,369 shares for US$70,619 compared to 39,450 stocks at US$4,029 on Thursday.