The Junior Market Index declined 29.46 points to close at 3,367.54 at the end of trading, after 28 securities changed hands, resulting in the prices of 7 securities rising, 12 declining and 9 remaining unchanged.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 7 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, 2 closed with lower offers. This reading suggests that declining stocks should exceed those advancing for the second day in a row.
Market activities, resulted in an exchange of 1,606,501 units valued at $7,572,441 compared to 1,142,126 units valued at $4,705,199 on Monday, from trading of 26 securities.
Trading closed with an average of 57,375 units for an average of $270,444 in contrast to 43,928 units for an average of $180,969 on Monday. Trading for the month to date averages 50,901 for an average of $227,364. September, ended with an average of 484,335 at $2,628,299 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 1 cent at $1.90, with 46,425 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading of 23,701 units at $6, CAC 2000 finished 25 cents higher at $19, trading 2,827 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading 15,184 shares at $8, Caribbean Producers finished trading at $6.35, after swapping 4,250 units. Derrimon Trading ended 3 cents higher at $2.93, with 102,401 shares changing hands, Dolphin Cove lost $1.51 to close at $14.99, with 10,551 shares trading, Elite Diagnostic finished 10 cents higher at $3.15, exchanging 53,573 stock units, Eppley rose by $2 to $10, with 500 units trading. Everything Fresh fell 8 cents and ended trading of 215,740 shares at $1.91, Express Catering fell 10 cents to $8.40, exchanging 67,913 shares, FosRich Group traded 2,300 shares, with a loss of 20 cents at $3.30, General Accident finished trading at $3.80, with 25,362 shares, GWest Corporation closed with a loss of 8 cents at a 52 weeks’ low of $1.97, with 32,274 stock units changing hands. 
Honey Bun ended at $3.70, exchanging 6,416 units, Indies Pharma lost 7 cents with 74,921 shares changing hands to close at $3.25. Iron Rock concluded trading with 155,898 shares with a loss of 10 cents at $4.90, Jamaican Teas settled with a loss of 20 cents at $4.65, with 68,523 shares changing hands, Jetcon Corporation ended trading of 5,100 stock units at $3.86. KLE Group finished trading of 1,871 shares at $3.80, Knutsford Express closed 32 cents higher at $11.68, with 1,370 shares trading, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 14 cents at $3.96, in exchanging 195,513 shares, Lasco Financial concluded trading with a loss of 10 cents at $5.40, with 232,236 stock units trading. Lasco Manufacturing finished at $3.75, trading 60,638 units, Main Event settled 18 cents higher at $6.10, in exchanging 6,383 shares, Paramount Trading traded with a loss of 25 cents at $2.75, with 7,069 shares and Stationery and Office finished trading of 177,532 stock units 10 cents higher at $9.20.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Q4 off to record high for JSE majors
Stocks surged to new record high on the Jamaica Stock Exchange main market at the start of October, as the market opened, with the All Jamaica Composite Index jumping within 535 points of the critical 400,000 mark and with 35 minutes of trading, it climbed over 400,000 points for the first time.
At the end of trading All Jamaica Composite Index jumped 9,823 points to a record close of 403,100.29 after it earlier jumped 10,773.36 points with just 13 minutes to close and the JSE Index surged 8,949.87 points to a record close of 366,558.39 after trading higher to a record intraday high of 368,135.86.
A total of 33 securities traded including 4 in the US dollar market, compared to 32 trading on Friday with the prices of 10 securities rising, 12 declined and 11 held firm. The market closed with 3 new highs and Radio Jamaica trading at a 52 week’s low of 92 cents.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 8 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and only 2 closing with a lower offer.
The main market ended with 3,284,901 units valued at $66,139,568 changing hands, compared to 7,891,758 units valued at $231,891,130 changing hands on Friday.
Trading closed with Sagicor Real Estate Fund accounting for 1,221,240 units or 37.18 percent of the day’s volume, followed by with 342,484 units and 10.43 percent of the volume traded and with 252,932 units 7.70 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 113,272 units valued at $2,280,675 units, in contrast to 281,849 shares valued at $8,281,826 on Friday. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments lost 49 cents to close at $18.51, in trading 9,748 shares, Caribbean Cement rose 96 cents to finish at $48, in the trading of 8,500 stock units, Jamaica Producers rose $2 to close at 52 weeks’ closing high of $28, trading 10,364 stock units, Kingston Wharves lost $2 to $72, with 4,140 stock units changing hands, Mayberry Investments climbed 25 cents to finish at $8.25, with 32,181 stock units 
trading, NCB Financial Group climbed $3.75 and ended trading of 77,954 shares at $128.75, PanJam Investment jumped $6.50 and ended at 52 weeks’ closing high of $64.50, while exchanging 3,510 stock units, Sagicor Group gained 90 cents to settle at $39, in the trading of 157,640 shares. Sagicor Real Estate Fund dived $2.39 to settle at $11.11, trading 1,221,240 shares, Scotia Group rose $2 trading 64,186 units to close at $62.00, Sterling Investments jumped $1 to end at a 52 weeks’ closing high at $23, with 3,352 shares changing hands and Sygnus Credit Investments traded 12,500 shares and fell 50 cents to end at $12.50.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 20,932 units valued at $7,170 as JMMB Group 5.75 percent preference share concluded trading of 2,500 shares at $2, Proven Investments traded 2,088 shares at 20 US cents, Sygnus Credit Investments US dollar based ordinary share traded 7,500 units but lost 1 cent to end at 10 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments US dollar based ordinary share traded 8,844 units to end at 11 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 0.63 points to close at 161.03.
14 Junior Market stocks fall 6 rise – Monday
The Junior Market Index rose just 1.98 points to 3,397 at the close of trading after 26 securities changed hands on Monday, resulting in the prices of 6 securities rising, 14 declining and 6 remaining unchanged.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 4 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, 4 closed with lower offers. This reading suggests that declining stocks should exceed those advancing for the second day in a row.
Market activities, resulted in an exchange of only 1,142,126 units valued at $4,705,199, compared to 3,221,714 units valued at $11,222,507 trading on Friday from trading of 25 securities.
Trading closed with an average of 43,928 units for an average of $180,969 in contrast to 128,869 units for an average of $448,900 on Friday. Trading in September, averaged 484,335 for an average of $2,628,299 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging ended with 40,952 stock units changing hands after a loss of 4 cents to close at $1.91, Blue Power concluded trading with 5,035 units, and declined 30 cents to $6, CAC2000 jumped $3.75 to an all-time high at $18.75, with 2,000 shares trading, Cargo Handlers settled at $15, exchanging 6,058 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading 70 cents higher at $8, with 2,295 shares changing hands. Caribbean Flavours traded 15,300 stock units, with a loss of 2 cents to end at $17, Caribbean Producers finished trading of 1,955 units at $6.35, Derrimon Trading ended at $2.90, in swapping 226,188 shares, Dolphin Cove concluded trading with a loss of 50 cents at $16.50, with 110 shares. Everything Fresh fell 1 cent and ended trading of 116,277 shares at $1.99, Express Catering ended trading 30 cents higher at $8.50, with 21,625 shares changing hands, FosRich Group ended trading 2,945 shares with a loss of 20 cents at $3.50, General Accident traded 214,892 shares at $3.80, GWest Corporation finished at $2.05, trading 21,641 shares, Honey Bun closed with a loss of 25 cents at $3.70, with 48,907 stock units changing hands.
Indies Pharma lost 8 cents with 119,039 shares changing hands to close at $3.32. Iron Rock ended 40 cents higher at a 52 weeks’ high $5, in exchanging 10,600 units, ISP Finance concluded trading with 3,000 shares after a loss of $2 at $20, Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 14 cents at $3.86, exchanging 800 shares, KLE Group traded 70,864 units for 5 cents higher at $3.80. Knutsford Express dropped $1.14 to $11.36, trading 205 shares, Lasco Distributors closed 15 cents higher at $4.10, in the swapping of 9,400 shares, Lasco Financial ended at $5.50, with 136,342 shares trading, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 9,990 stock units with a loss of 10 cents at $3.75, Main Event finished with a loss of 48 cents at $5.92, exchanging 29,158 units and Stationery and Office traded 26,548 shares with a loss of 9 cents at $9.10.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
TTSE stocks fell on Monday
Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange Head Quarters
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange, closed on Monday, with the Composite Index falling 1.47 points on Monday to 1,217.96, the All T&T Index declining 1.91 points to 1,689.27, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.14 points higher to 100.37.
At close, 12 securities changed hands, with the price of 1 rising, 5 declining and 6 remaining unchanged, against 13 trading on Friday.
The market ended trading of 568,679 shares valued $22,800,556, compared to 103,614 shares valued $2,240,963 changing hands on Friday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 5 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Massy Holdings lost 5 cents and concluded trading at $47.05, after exchanging 5,075 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| Ansa Mcal shares fell 50 cents and completed trading of 240 units at $55.50, Clico Investments closed with a loss of 10 cents and ended at $19.80, with 55,547 stock units changing hands, Gaurdian Media shed 5 cents and ended at a 52 weeks’ low of $15.70, after exchanging 100 shares, JMMB Group lost 10 cents to end at $1.60, after exchanging 6,000 shares and National Flour ended trading of 8,764 units 10 cents lower at a 52 weeks’ low of $1.60.
Stocks trading with no price change| Guardian Holdings completed trading of 142,027 units at $16.90, Republic Financial Holdings concluded at $103.69, after exchanging 162,361 shares, Sagicor Financial ended at $7.75, with 171,500 stock units changing hands, Scotiabank completed trading at $64.94, with 1,532 units, Trinidad & Tobago NGL settled at $29.11, after exchanging 9,557 shares, Unilever Caribbean ended at $26.25, with 751 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco completed trading at $88.44, with 5,185 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Watch Grace this week
Grace Kennedy could move up this week.
The main stocks of interest this week are Grace Kennedy, Stationery and Office Supplies, CAC 2000, NCB Financial, Caribbean Cream, Main Event, Wisynco and Berger Paints, most of these have limited supplies.
With the average PE of the market now exceeding a comfortable 15 times 2018 earnings and rising, stocks valued less than the market average, could see increased interest as investors look for bargains.
Bulls continue to push the Jamaican stock market, to new heights last week as low interest rates and good profits help push investors into stocks against the back ground of limited selling.
The supply of several of the main market stocks are extremely scarce and that is working in market favour to move much higher, before too long. There are several stocks priced well below the market’s average and that could encourage buying interest in them as well.
NCB Financial went sideways for around two weeks but bids started building close to the closing prices last week and that could help it move higher this week.
Grace Kennedy seems ready to break out of the $60 range as there is no supply on offer now. Caribbean Cement
keeps trading between $46 and $50, but there appears no real desire to move the price forward. Kingston Wharves has always had limited supply, so it could move higher going forward. Supply of JMMB Group have dried up and that could create the environment for the price to move higher.
An overall view of stocks indicates that the main market continues to be steered higher by an upward sloping support line as well the 45 and 125 day moving averages, lending support just below, but the 400,000 points resistance could likely stall the rally in the main market for a while. The Junior Market that traded recently at an all-time high, is being steered by an upward rising long-term support line and a golden cross. The golden cross is a very strong bullish long-term signal.
JMMB & Honey Bun now in IC TOP 10
Honey Bun and Medical Disposables are in this week’s Top 10 Junior Market stocks replacing Main Event and CAC2000. In the main market, Sygnus Credit and JMMB Group are back in the top tier stocks and out goes Stanley Motta and Sterling Investments.
Sterling Investments, a very long time TOP 10 listing hit a record $22.50 this past week, as investors continued to applaud the recently announced 3 for 1 stock split. In the Junior Market, CAC2000 closed at $15 and ended trading with no stock on offer. The stock seems poised for stock split, to create more liquidity and is set to trade 
higher this week with buying orders in for 139,000 shares at $15. The price of Stanley Motta climbed to $5.27 during the week from $4.81 in the previous week and exited the main market list.
Barita Investments and Berger Paints, long time TOP 10 listees, moved up in price during the week but still remain in the listing at position 7 and 9 respectively and could be out by the end of this week, if current demand continues.
Gains in the two markets are driving the PE ratio of the market higher with the overall PE for the Junior Market rising to 15 and the main market to 15.3 as the valuation multiple grows with historically low interest rates and high liquidity abounding in the financial market.
The PE ratio for Junior Market Top 10 stocks, average 9.3, similar to last week’s level, as the market continues to revalue the multiple higher, the main market PE is now 9.5, up from 9.1 last week, for the top stocks.
The TOP 10 stocks now trade at an average discount of 38 percent to the average for the Junior Market Top stocks but it’s a third of what the average PE for the year is likely to be, at 20 times earnings. The main market stocks trade at a discount of 38 percent to the overall market.
TOP 10 stocks are likely to deliver the best returns within a 12 months period. Stocks are selected based on projected earnings 
for each company’s current fiscal year. Based on an assumed PE for each, the likely gains are determined and then ranked, with the stocks with the highest potential gains ranked first followed by the rest, in descending order. Potential values will change as stock prices fluctuate and will result in movements of the selection in and out of the lists for most weeks. Earnings per share are revised on an ongoing basis based on new information received that can result in changes in and out of the list as well.
Record JSE close for September
The Jamaica Stock Exchange, surged sharply for the second trading day with the All Jamaica Composite Index jumping 5,287 points to a record close of 393,277.29 and a gain of more than 10,500 points gain in just two days.
The main market closed on 14 trading days at record high for September helping to bring the gains in the market for the year to 24.3 percent.
The JSE Index that climbed by 4,768.22 points on Thursday, jumped another 4,817.06 points to close at 358,320.11, to be up a strong 9,585 points in just two days.
A total of 32 securities traded including 4 in the US dollar market, compared to 30 trading on Thursday with the prices of 15 securities rose and 8 declined and just 9 held firm.
Mayberry Jamaican Equities closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $11.15, PanJam Investment traded at an intraday high of $64.90 but closed lower than Thursday closing price, while Sterling Investments closed at a new high of $22 and Supreme Ventures closed at a record high of $24.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading is very strong for continuation of the market’s rally and shows 8 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and only 4 closing with a lower offer.
The main market ended with 7,891,758 units valued at over $231,891,130 changing hands, compared to 269,506,497 units valued at $3,571,606,905 changing hands on Thursday. Trading closed with Wisynco Group exchanging 1,958,391 units accounting for 24.8 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Jamaica Broilers with 1,868,677 units and 23.68 percent of total volume and Mayberry Jamaican Equities with 923,865 units and just 11.7 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 281,849 units valued at over $8,281,826, in contrast to 10,365,635 shares valued at $137,369,496 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, compared to 579,751 shares valued $9,695,343 changed hands on the immediately preceding trading day. August closed, with an average of 224,564 shares valued at $4,310,285, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments rose $1 and closed at $19, trading 3,965 shares, Caribbean Cement shed $1.96 to finish at $47.04, in the trading of 803,000 stock units, Grace Kennedy gained $1.01 and settled at $60, with 128,848 shares changing hands. Jamaica Broilers jumped $1.50 to $30 and ended trading of 1,868,677 shares, Jamaica Producers lost $1 to close at $26, trading 34,657 stock units, Jamaica Stock Exchange rose 20 cents and finished trading 150,000 units at $8.20, JMMB Group rose 35 cents and closed at $32.50, with an 
exchange of 56,396 shares. Kingston Wharves rose $2 to $74, with 16,204 stock units changing hands, Mayberry Jamaican Equities climbed 65 cents to finish at 52 weeks’ closing high of $11.15, with 923,865 stock units trading, NCB Financial Group climbed $4 and ended trading of 470,875 shares at $125, PanJam Investment shed $2 and ended at $58, while exchanging 405,279 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund gained 45 cents to settle at $13.50, trading 122,949 shares, Sterling Investments jumped $3 to end at a 52 weeks’ closing high at $22, with 48,709 shares changing hands Supreme Ventures gained $7 and ended at an all-time high of $24, as 40,497 shares traded, Sygnus Credit Investments traded 1,800 shares and rose 70 cents to end at $13 and Wisynco Group rose 35 cents and concluded trading of 1,958,391 stock units at $9.45.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 48,266 units valued at $7,252 as JMMB Group 5.75% preference share concluded trading of 10,500 shares at $2, Productivity Business ended trading 14,100 shares and increased 4 cents to close at 59 cents and Proven Investments traded 7,115 shares at 20 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments traded 13,543 units but lost 1 cent to end at 11 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index gained 2.60 points to close at 161.66.
TTSE stocks closed mostly higher – Friday
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange, closed with all indices gaining on Friday, with the Composite Index rising 0.62 points on Friday to 1,219.43, the All T&T Index added 0.24 points to 1,691.18, while the Cross Listed Index inched 0.14 points higher to 100.51.
At close, 13 securities changed hands, with the price of 4 rising, 3 declining and 6 remaining unchanged, against 16 trading on Thursday.
The market ended trading of 103,614 shares valued $2,240,963, compared to 988,299 shares valued $25,956,830 changing hands on Thursday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 3 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Ansa Mcal added 50 cents and settled at $56, trading 25 units, Clico Investments increased 10 cents and completed trading at $19.90, with 28,305 stock units changing hands, JMMB Group rose 5 cents and ended at $1.70, after exchanging 15,000 shares and One Caribbean Media closed with a gain of 1 cent to end at $12.11, after trading 5,500 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| Massy Holdings fell 20 cents and ended at $47, after exchanging 7,105 shares, Point Lisas closed with a loss of 8 cents and completed trading at a 52 weeks’ low of $3.62, with 1,000 stock units 
changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL shed 4 cents and concluded at $29.11, after exchanging 24,903 shares.
Stocks trading with no price change| First Citizens concluded trading at $32.60, after exchanging 82 shares, Grace Kennedy completed trading at $2.70, with 14,706 stock units changing hands, National Enterprises ended at $8.96, with 1,673 stock units changing hands, Scotiabank settled at $64.94, after trading 8 units, Unilever Caribbean completed trading at $26.25, with 50 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco settled at $88.44, with 5,257 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Junior Market falls to end September
The Junior Market Index declined by 34.58 points to 3,395.02 at the close of trading after 25 securities changed hands, resulting in the prices of 10 securities rising, 10 declining and 5 remaining unchanged.
Market sentiment closed somewhat negatively at the end of trading on Friday, as the IC bid-offer Indicator was narrowly positive which is an indication of that declining stocks should exceed those advancing.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 8 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, 6 closed with lower offers.
Market activities, resulted in an exchange of 3,221,714 units valued at $11,222,507, compared to 2,433,731 units valued at $8,326,070 trading on Thursday from trading of 27 securities.
Trading closed with an average of 128,869 units for an average of $448,900 in contrast to 105,814 units for an average of $362,003 on Thursday. Trading for the month to date averages 484,335 for an average of $2,628,299 and on the prior trading day, an average of 502,180 units for an average of $2,737,706 units. Trading in August, averaged 244,613 units at $1,348,298 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging ended 1 cent higher at $1.95, in exchanging 161,113 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading 60,693 units with a loss of 20 cents at $6.30, Caribbean Producers finished trading 3,597 units at $6.35, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 45 cents at $2, with 500 shares changing hands, Derrimon Trading ended 5 cents higher at $2.90, after exchanging 1,332,160 shares. Dolphin Cove concluded trading 13,815 shares and climbed 50 cents higher at $17, Elite Diagnostic finished 3 cents higher at $3.05, with 54,569 stock units changing hands, Everything Fresh fell 10 cents and ended trading of 336,061 shares at $2, Express Catering ended trading at $8.20, with 138,800 shares changing hands, FosRich Group traded 24,113 shares and rose 10 cents to $3.70. General Accident finished trading of 2,000 shares at $3.80, GWest Corporation closed with a loss of 5 cents at $2.05, after exchanging 24,594 stock units, 
Honey Bun ended with a loss of 5 cents at $3.95, with 106,500 units changing hands, Indies Pharma rose 1 cent with 622,577 shares changing hands to close at $3.40. Iron Rock concluded trading 10 cents higher at $4.60, with 13,000 shares. Jamaican Teas settled at $4.85, trading 100 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended trading 20 cents higher at $4, with 13,750 stock units, Key Insurance traded with a loss of 42 cents at $3.08, with 5,000 units changing hands, KLE Group finished trading 10,000 shares with a loss of 25 cents to close at $3.75. Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 5 cents at $3.95, with 93,935 shares changing hands, Lasco Financial concluded trading of 114,689 stock units at $5.50, Lasco Manufacturing finished with a loss of 15 cents at $3.85, with 6,362 units trading, Main Event settled 30 cents higher at $6.40, with 10,558 shares changing hands, Medical Disposables dropped $2.40 t0 $5.50, with just 600 shares trading and Stationery and Office finished trading 19 cents higher at $9.19, with 72,628 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE main market in big jump – Thursday
Sterling Investments jumps to a high of $19 after split announcement.
The Jamaica Stock Exchange enjoyed a big day on Thursday with gains of more than 4,700 points in the market indices as the prices of 13 securities rose and 7 declined and just 10 held firm.
At the close of trading, the All Jamaica Composite Index surged by 5,233.40 points to close at 387,990.29 and the JSE Index jumped by 4,768.22 points to 353,503.05.
Sterling Investments ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high at $19, PanJam Investment traded at closing 52 weeks’ high of $60 while Supreme Ventures close trading at a 52 weeks’ high of $17.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading is very strong for continuation of the market’s rally and shows 8 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and only 4 closing with a lower offer.
A total of 30 securities traded in the main and US dollar markets compared to 34 trading on Wednesday with Sagicor Real Estate Fund dominating trading with 264,879,865 units in the main market that ended with 269,506,497 units valued at $3,571,606,905 changing hands, compared to 117,820,162 units valued at $2,898,097,993 changing hands on Wednesday when JMMB Group dominated trading with 102,542,622 units and 87.03 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 10,365,635 units valued at over $137,369,496, in contrast to 3,681,880 shares valued at $90,565,562 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, compared to 579,751 shares valued $9,695,343 traded on the immediately preceding trading day. August closed, with an average of 224,564 shares valued at $4,310,285, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Caribbean Cement shed $1.01 to finish at $49, in the trading of 29,872 shares, Jamaica Broilers fell 25 cents in trading 391,212 stock units, to close at $28.50, Kingston Wharves rose $1.70 
to $72, with 2,000 stock units changing hands, NCB Financial Group climbed $3 and ended trading of 572,945 shares at $121, PanJam Investment climbed $3.76 and ended at 52 weeks’ closing high of $60, while exchanging 4,880 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund gained $1.05 to settle at $13.05, trading 264,879,865 shares, Seprod lost $2.20 and finished trading 11,100 shares at $43, Sterling Investments gained 50 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ closing high at $19, with 290,741 shares changing hands Supreme Ventures gained 50 cents and ended at $17, as 291,464 shares traded and Sygnus Credit Investments traded 99,600 shares and lost $1.20 to end at $12.30.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 48,266 units valued at $7,252 as 300 units of JMMB Group 6% preference share traded at $1.06, Margaritaville traded 14,742 units and rose 1 cent to 20 US cents, Proven Investments traded 2,024 shares at 20 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments traded 31,200 units and rose 1 cent to end at 12 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index declined 0.25 points to close at 159.06.
