Investors exchanged 1,230 percent more shares on the JSE USD market on Thursday than on Wednesday, due primarily to a spike in trading in Transjamaican Highway shares that accounted for 99.8 percent of the units exchanged after 12.9 million of the company’s shares changed hands.
Six securities traded, compared to four on Wednesday, with prices of three rising, two declining and one remaining unchanged. The US Denominated Equities Index lost 0.75 points to end at 188.40.
The PE Ratio, a measure that computes appropriate stock values, averages 11.9 based on ICInsider.com’s forecast of 2021-22 earnings.
Overall, 13,016,194 shares changed hands at US$128,328, 45 percent less than on Wednesday, which ended trading, with 978,654 units at US$233,868.
Trading averaged 2,169,366 units at US$21,388 in contrast to 244,664 shares at US$58,467 on Wednesday. Trading month to date averages 281,831 units at US$13,458, up from 102,066 units at US$12,703 on Wednesday. July ended with an average of 178,541 units for US$18,099.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows one stock ending with a higher bid than its last selling price and two with lower offers.
At the close, First Rock Capital climbed 0.91 of a cent to 7.96 US cents trading 700 shares, Proven Investments ended at 24.1 US cents, with an exchange of 13,290 stock units, Sygnus Credit Investments lost 0.03 of a cent to 12 US cents with a transfer of 3,202 stocks and Transjamaican Highway fell 0.04 of a cent to 0.85 US cents with 12,990,002 shares crossing the exchange.
In the preference segment, JMMB Group 5.75% popped 0.1 of one cent to finish at US$2.03 with 5,000 stocks traded and JMMB Group 6% rose 2 cents to US$1.03 with 4,000 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
Trading picked up on Wednesday, with the volume shares changing hands jumping 51 percent after 67 percent more funds entered the market than on Tuesday and resulted in an even number of stocks rising and falling, but ended, with the JSE USD market slipping at the close. 
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ended with higher bids than the last selling prices and one with a lower offer.
The majority of stocks trading on Tuesday remained unperturbed at the close of the JSE USD market after investors swapped 51 percent more shares, with a value that was 297 percent more than those trading on Monday. 
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ended with the bid higher than its last selling price and one with a lower offer.
Trading averaged 1,649,728 units at $31,269,659, compared to 672,476 shares at $37,672,811 on Monday. Trading month to date averages 391,623 units at $8,187,803, in contrast to 245,797 units at $5,512,406 on Monday. July ended with an average of 322,932 units at $15,201,099.
ry Investments slipped 55 cents to $5.65 with 45 units crossing the exchange. Mayberry Jamaican Equities shed 30 cents to $8.50 with the swapping of 800 stocks, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy spiked $1 to $121 with an exchange of 100 stock units, NCB Financial dropped $7.50 to $132 with an exchange of 4,246 shares. 138 Student Living dropped 65 cents to $4.45 in switching ownership of 2,945 stock units, Palace Amusement rallied $17.04 to $1,050.80 after 94 stocks cleared the market, PanJam Investment shed 82 cents to $61.60 with a transfer of 1,001,621 shares, Radio Jamaica gained 14 cents in closing at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.75 while exchanging 1,035,575 unit, Sagicor Group popped 28 cents to close at $57.78 with 186,602 stocks changing hands. Salada Foods shed 25 cents to end at $7.25 in exchanging 30,795 units. Scotia Group lost 31 cents to finish at $39.99 in an exchange of 35,083 stock units, Seprod dropped $4 to close at $65 with the swapping of 117,010 stocks, Supreme Ventures rose 44 cents in ending at $19 after 74,165,054 shares crossed the market and Sygnus Credit Investments popped 20 cents to $15.10 with 16,555 stocks changing hands.
At the close, Barita Investments spiked $7.24 to $90.24 with an exchange of 19,379,347 shares, Berger Paints gained 22 cents in ending at $13.74 after trading 54,600 stock units, Caribbean Cement fell $3.49 to $90.50, with the swapping of 7,931 stocks. Caribbean Producers dipped 36 cents $4.64 in transferring 13,326 units, Eppley rose $1.42 to $41.86 with 4,938 stock units crossing the market, First Rock Capital shed $1.50 to $12 with 29,541 stocks clearing the market, GraceKennedy fell $2 to $101 in switching ownership of 637,615 shares. Guardian Holdings slid $5 to $615 in trading 766 units, Jamaica Broilers lost 26 cents to end at $36.20 with 3,023,439 shares changing hands, Jamaica Producers rallied $1.98 to $23.48 in trading 6,300 stock units. JMMB Group declined $2.25 to $37.75 with 280,003 stocks crossing the exchange after trading at an intraday high of $43.47, Kingston Properties popped 20 cents to $9.50 after exchanging 1,301 stocks, Margaritaville popped $1.67 to $15.27 in an exchange of 5,047 shares, Mayberry Investments rose 45 cents to $6.20 in transferring 64,783 stock units. MPC Caribbean Clean Energy dropped $17.80 to $120 with an exchange of 2,500 units, NCB Financial spiked $7.50 to $139.50 after 35,309 stocks crossed the exchange, PanJam Investment shed 58 cents to $62.42 with 14,151 stock units clearing the market. 
Proven Investments slipped $1.10 to $34.40 in exchanging 16,665 shares, Radio Jamaica gained 36 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.61 with the swapping of 1,149,429 shares, Sagicor Group lost 40 cents t close at $57.50 with an exchange of 46,317 stock units, Salada Foods rallied 30 cents to $7.50 with the swapping of 21,230 shares, Scotia Group rose 70 cents to $40.30 with 7,222 stocks crossing the exchange. Seprod advanced $3 to $69 with 6,412 units changing hands, Stanley Motta dipped 58 cents to $5.41 in transferring 4,000 stock units and Supreme Ventures dipped 43 cents to $18.56 with 19,369 shares changing hands.
The majority of stocks trading on Monday gained and outnumbered declining ones two to one at the close of the Jamaica Stock exchange that ended with the USD market as investors exchanged 44 percent more shares than on Friday for 281 percent greater value.
At the close, First Rock Capital fell 0.99 of a cent to 7 US cents with an exchange of 8,758 shares, Margaritaville rose 0.1 of a cent to 9 US cents with 284,705 stocks changing hands, Proven Investments dropped 0.95 of a cent to 24 US cents with 31,288 units traded. Sterling Investments gained 0.05 of a cent to 2.05 US cents with 649 stocks passing through the market, Sygnus Credit Investments advanced 0.72 of a cent to 15.55 US cents with investors switching ownership of 4,650 stock units and Transjamaican Highway rose 0.09 cents to 0.89 of one US cent with 100,000 shares crossing the exchange.
Trading averaged 379,470 units at $1,891,724, up from 186,829 shares at $859,293 on Thursday. Trading month to date averages 192,325 units at $1,482,074, in contrast to 167,373 units at $1,427,454 on Thursday. July ended with an average of 322,932 units at $15,201,099.
Pulse Investments fell 40 cents to $3.50 with the swapping of 679,437 shares, Salada Foods lost 59 cents in ending at $7.20 in an exchange of 52,240 stock units, after posting results that exceeded that of 2020 but well below amounts required to support the stock at recently elevated prices, Scotia Group shed 20 cents in closing at $39.60 and trading 72,819 stocks and Seprod fell $2.90 to $66 with 5,713 shares clearing the market.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows one stock ending with the bid higher than its last selling price and two with lower offers.
At the close, Margaritaville had an exchange of 478 shares at 8.9 US cents, Proven Investments rose 0.94 of one cent to end at 24.95 US cents with 10,500 units changing hands, Sterling Investments lost 0.07 of a cent to settle at 2 US cents with a transfer of 50,000 stocks. Sygnus Credit Investments J$ stock climbed 2.94 cents to close at 14.83 US cents with 14,200 stock units, Sygnus Credit Investments US$ stock declined by 0.6 of one cent to finish at 12.2 US cents with 335 units changing hands and Transjamaican Highway fell 0.05 of a cent to 0.95 of one US cent with 562 shares crossing the exchange.
The Jamaica stock market closed on Thursday with the market recovering some of Wednesday’s losses, with the movement not strong enough to wipe those losses even as the market moved well above Wednesday’s close in early morning trading, by the close, declining stocks clobbered advancing more than two to one, with the volume and value of shares traded falling 26 percent and 67 percent respectively compared to Wednesday, on the Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Market. 
Trading averaged 186,829 units at $859,293, compared to 264,717 shares at $2,753,192 on Wednesday. Trading month to date averages 167,373 units at $1,427,454, in contrast to 164,075 units at $1,523,753 on Wednesday. July ended with an average of 322,932 units at $15,201,099.
Mayberry Jamaican Equities gained 25 cents to close at $9.20 after exchanging 2,000 units, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy rose 80 cents to $137.80 in trading 4 stock units, Palace Amusement plunged $105.24 to $1,033.76, with a transfer of 10 shares. PanJam Investment shed 94 cents to end at $63.05 after 7,828 stocks crossed the market, Proven Investments fell 59 cents to $34.41 in exchanging 1,507 stock units, Radio Jamaica gained 15 cents to close at $2.15, with 1,690,453 share changing hands, Sagicor Group spiked $1.04 to $57.90 with 124,380 shares clearing the market and Scotia Group fell $1.40 to $39.80 in trading 2,942 stock units.
