Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Monday with 25 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 2,098,509 units valued at $11,226,036 compared to 1,889,929 units valued at $9,948,506 on Friday.
At the close of market activities, the prices of 7 securities advanced, 11 declined and 7 remained with the prices unchanged. The Junior Market Index advanced by 27.80 points to close at 2,934.57.
Trading ended with an average of 83,940 units for an average of $449,041 in contrast to 89,997 units for an average of $473,738 on Friday. 
In contrast, September closed with average of 116,176 units valued at $538,652 for each security traded. Trading ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
At the close of the market the volume of stock units changing hands and their last traded price are: Access Financial closing at $42, with 2,311 units, AMG Packaging trading 30 cents higher at $3.50, with 15,000 shares. Blue Power jumped $4 higher to $49, with 450 stock units changing hands, CAC 2000 traded 199,944 stock units to close at $7, Cargo Handlers ended with a loss of $1.58 at $9.50, with 2,045 shares, Caribbean Cream concluded trading at $6, with 5,371 units, Caribbean Producers ended trading with a loss of 15 cents at $3.60, with 408,750 units trading. Consolidated Bakeries lost 20 cents in closing at $2.50, with 3,677 units, C2W Music traded with a loss of 1 cent at $0.49, with 1,000 stock units, Eppley finished 20 cents higher at $12, with just 500 units, 
Express Catering ended 16 cents higher at $4.16, with 17,562 shares, General Accident closed with a loss of 24 cents at $2.50, trading 852 stock units, Honey Bun traded 1,200 units at $4.30. Jamaican Teas concluded trading with a loss of 11 cents at $3.79, with 107,025 stock units, Jetcon Corporation concluded trading with a loss of 22 cents at $4.28, with 166,217 units, Knutsford Express lost 34 cents at $14.55, with 10,194 shares, Lasco Distributors ended trading at $6.30, with 26,651 shares, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 27 cents at $3.75, with 49,449 units trading. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading at $3.80, with 107,299 shares, Main Event concluded trading with a loss of 25 cents at $5, with 38,898 units, Medical Disposables traded at $5.30, with 17,600 units, Paramount Trading closed 10 cents higher at $2.80, exchanging 32,614 units, Stationery and Office ended trading 5 cents higher at $4.85, with 126,441 shares changing hands, tTech fell 5 cents to $7, with 88,098 shares and in the junior market preference segment, Eppley concluded trading with a loss of 5 cents at $6.50, with 669,361 shares.
Junior Market rises – Monday
13 stocks rose on Monday
Sagicor Group traded 7 million shares on Monday.
At the close of trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, on 13 rising, 11 declining based on the last price trades were executed at. The JSE All Jamaican Composite Index surged forward by 3,300.40 points to 291,661.03.
The JSE Index climbed 3,007.04 points to 265,736.18 as trading volume nearly tripled to 13 million shares over Friday’s level. Sagicor Group was the dominant trade with over 7 million units followed by Grace Kennedy with 1.3 million shares.
In the main activity, Barita Investments rose by 25 cents to $8, with 4,800 units, Berger Paints ended with a loss of $3 at $12, with 12,500 shares, Cable & Wireless ended trading 1 cent higher at $1.11, with 479,762 stock units, 
Caribbean Cement rose $1.2 to $28.50, with 17,475 shares, Carreras surged $1.35 to a new 52 weeks high of $13.50, with 544,289 stocks units, Grace Kennedy ended at $43, trading 1,307,292 shares, Jamaica Broilers closed with a loss of 10 cents at $18.50, with 961,908 stocks units traded. Jamaica Producers concluded trading at $15.50, with 313,406 units, Jamaica Stock Exchange settled 50 cents higher at $8, with 104,300 shares, JMMB Group traded with a gain of 75 cents at $23, with 55,994 units, Kingston Wharves ended with a loss of $1 at $31, with 177,500 stocks units, NCB Financial had 166,223 shares changing hands after falling $1.40 to end at $86.60. The remanent of former Gleaner Company, 1834 Investments ended with a loss of 2 cents at $1.38, with 1,000 units changing hands, PanJam ended $1.50 higher at $42.50, with 350,918 units, Portland JSX concluded trading with a loss of 2 cents at $9.28, with 16,570 units. 
Proven Investments traded 541,000 units and rose 4 cents at $25.05, Pulse Investments concluded trading with a loss of 30 cents at $1.40, with 52,264 units, Radio Jamaica finished 4 cents higher at $1.15, with 294,243 stocks units, Sagicor Group ended trading at $34.53, with 7,095,313 units, Sagicor Real Estate X Fund rose 30 cents to $13.80, with 1,200 units, Scotia Group finished with a loss of $1.90 at $46.10, with 772,000 units, Seprod settled at $30, with 2,785 shares, Sterling Investments concluded trading 5 cents higher at $12.05, with 201,700 stocks units and Supreme Ventures concluded trading 30 cents higher at $10.81, with 123,652 stocks units.
In the main market preference segment, Cable Bahamas traded 10 shares at 1 million each, Jamaica Money Market Brokers ended with a loss of 8 cents at $2, trading 20,325 shares, JMMB Group ended at $1.19, with 200 shares.
In the US dollar market, Margaritaville Turks lost 2 US cents to end at 30 US cents with 1,000 shares, Productive Business Solution US ordinary share closed with a rise of 0.50 cent at 58 US cents while trading 2,541 units, Proven Investments US ordinary share lost 1.99 US cents to close at 22 US cents, while, exchanging 1,579 units.
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JSE All Jamaican jumps to 291,661 points
JSE Index surged by 3,007.04 points to close at 265,736.18 with 13,618,629 units valued at $432,506,372 changing hands in the main market, compared to 5,005,392 units valued at 111,349,381 on Friday. In the US dollar market JSE US dollar Equity Index dipped 8.15 points to 176.81.
Trading accounted for 5,120 units valued at US$2,124 and brings the total for the markets to J$432,780,357.
Trading ended with an average of 504,394 units for an average of $16,018,755 in contrast to 217,626 units for an average of $4,841,277 on Friday. September closed with average of 283,480 units valued at $3,630,990 for each security traded.
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 a very strong 7 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices, down from 14 on Friday and 4 with lower offers, the same as Friday.
Scotia Investments has been delisted with Scotia Group set to pay out minority shareholders the proceeds of the acquisition on October 3.
Trading levels sink on Monday on TTSE
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed on Monday with 9 securities changing hands compared to 11 on Friday leading to 61,585 shares trading at a value of $1,205,904 compared to Friday’s trades of 83,803 units valued at $1,209,765.
The market closed with no stock advancing, 2 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
The Composite Index gained 0.55 points to 1,242.15, the All T&T Index rose 1.03 points to 1,783.21 and the Cross Listed Index added 0.01 point to close at 94.19.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 5 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| There were no securities advancing based on prices last traded.
Losses| At the close of trading, Prestige Holdings closed at $10.75, with a loss of 5 cents trading 10,000 shares and 
Scotiabank lost 1 cent, closing last at $58.05 with 66 units exchanged.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Angostura Holdings closed at $15.24 while exchanging 5,000 stock units, Clico Investment traded 6,001 shares at $21.51, First Citizens held firm at $32 with 1,372 units, National Flour Mills exchanged 600 units at $2. Republic Financial Holdings exchanged 134 units at $101.90, Sagicor Financial remained at $8.15 with trades of 3,565 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed at $23 with 34,847 shares valued at $801,513.
Junior market suffers big fall – Friday
Starbucks one of the brands Express Catering will sell at the Montego Bay Airport.
The Junior Market Index suffered a big fall of 52.63 points on Friday to close at 2,906.77 and down 192.13 points or 6 percent for September due mainly to a fall of 42 cent in the price of Express Catering.
Trading ended on Friday with 21 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 1,889,929 units valued at $9,948,506 compared to 538,080 units valued at $2,509,546 on Thursday.
At the close of market activities, at of 8 securities advanced with the last price, 6 declined and 7 remained with prices unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 89,997 units for an average of $473,738 in contrast to 29,893 units for an average of $139,419 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 116,176 units valued at $538,652 compared to $117,485 valued at $541,898 previously. In contrast, August closed with average of 234,437 units valued at $1,295,260 for each security traded.
Trading ended with the market sentiments looking positive for Monday trading activity as 7 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with lower offers.
At the close of the market the volume of stocks units changing hands and their last traded price are: Access Financial trading at $42, with 3,068 shares, AMG Packaging falling 30 cents to $3.20, with 69,088 units. Elsewhere, CAC 2000 finished at $7, with 96,192 stocks units, Caribbean Cream ended trading 10 cents higher at $6, with 49,816 shares, Caribbean Flavours ended 40 cents higher at $12, with 20,800 shares, Caribbean Producers gained 15 cents to $3.75, with 70,025 units, Dolphin Cove traded 49 cents higher at $17.49, with 5,144 stocks units, Eppley 10% preference share ended with a loss of 5 cents at $6.55, trading 396,000 units. Express Catering closed with a loss of 42 cents at $4, with 15,440 stock units, General Accident traded 14 cents higher at $2.74, with 76,990 shares, 
Jamaican Teas finished with a loss of 10 cents at $3.90, with 14,003 stocks units changing hands, Jetcon Corporation closed at $4.50, with 176,657 units, Key Insurance concluded trading at $4.25, with 36,935 stocks shares, Knutsford Express rose 9 cents to $14.89, with 300 shares, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 8 cents at $6.30, with 237,602 units, Lasco Financial traded 2 cents higher at $4.02, with 58,760 stocks units. Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading at $3.80, with 216,256 shares, Main Event closed 25 cents higher at $5.25, with 22,653 units, Paramount Trading ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.70, exchanging 1,000 shares, Stationery and Office finished at $4.80, with 323,000 stocks units and tTech finished with a loss of 50 cents at $7.05, with 200 stocks changing hands.
The bid and offer volumes for some securities have not been updated and are reported as they were at the close on Thursday, these are mostly Main Event except Medical Disposables down to Eppley preference shares.
JSE stocks up 37% for 2017
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange made strong gains in the indices at the close of the week and for September, leading to gains of 37 percent for the year to date.
Trading on Friday was dominated by Berger Paints, jumping $3.57 to $15 at the close and Scotia Group rising $2.89 to end at $48, while Jamaica Producers traded 1.57 million units to be the leading trade.
Market activity ended with 21 securities changing hands, 13 advanced, 8 declined and 2 traded firm at the last prices of the day, while 1 traded in the US dollar market.
In the main activity, Berger Paints closed $3.57 higher at $15, with 27,167 units, Cable & Wireless ended 9 cents higher at $1.10, with 558,054 stock units, 
Caribbean Cement ended trading with a loss of $1.20 at $27.30, with 126,250 stock units, Carreras closed with a loss of 35 cents at $12.15, with 376,643 shares, Grace Kennedy ended 40 cents higher at $43, with 88,357 units, Jamaica Broilers concluded trading 60 cents higher at $18.60, with 64,504 units, Jamaica Producers ended 40 cents higher at $15.50, with 1,574,959 stock units changing hands. Jamaica Stock Exchange finished with a rise of 50 cents at $7.50, with 115,657 shares, JMMB Group traded with a loss of 11 cents at $22.25, with 495,589 stock units trading, Kingston Properties gained 40 cents to $7.40, with 5,000 units, Kingston Wharves concluded trading with a loss of 1 cent at $32, with 19,250 stock units, Mayberry Investments settled 70 cents higher at $4.80, with 204,020 shares, 
NCB Financial Group had 542,955 shares changing hands after rising $1.20 to end at $88. 138 Student Living settled 5 cents higher at $4.80, with 200 stock units, PanJam Investment finished at $41, with 34,989 shares, Portland JSX traded 5 cents higher at $9.30, with 6,385 shares, Radio Jamaica ended with a loss of 1 cent at $1.11, with 421,563 stock units. Sagicor Group ended 48 cents higher at $34.53, with 233,535 units. Sagicor Real Estate Fund closed with a loss of 30 cents at $13.50, with 43,815 units, Salada Foods concluded trading at $8.50, with 7,400 shares, Scotia Group jumped $2.89 to $48, with 46,200 stock units, Seprod settled with a loss of $1 at $30, with 3,000 stock units and Supreme Ventures closed with a loss of 30 cents at $10.51, with 9,900 shares trading.
There was no trading in the main market preference segment, on Friday.
In the US dollar market, Proven Investments US ordinary share closed at 23.99 US cents, while exchanging 30,490 units.
TTSE trading drops sharply – Friday
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed on Friday with 11 securities changing hands compared to 13 on Thursday with just 83,803 shares traded at $1,209,765 compared to Wednesday’s 230,908 units valued at $2,243,148.
At the close, 6 stocks advanced, 1 declined and 4 were unchanged as the Composite Index advanced 3.33 points to 1,241.60 and is up marginally for September but up 2.65 percent for the year to date. The All T&T Index rose 0.56 points to 1,782.18 but is down from 1,791.21 at the start of the month to close the month 2.84 percent down from the start of 2-017. The Cross Listed Index gained 0.84 points to close at 94.18 leading to a gain for the month of 1.41 points and is up 20.48 percent for the year to date.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 4 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| The last traded prices of the securities rising and volume changing hands are Clico Investment gained 1 cent to close at $21.51 trading 5,518 shares, First Citizens closed at $32, with gains of 25 cents exchanging 6,292 shares, Republic Financial Holdings gained 11 cents to $101.90 with 1,395 units and Sagicor Financial trading 14 cents higher at $8.15 with 1,667 units. 
Scotiabank rose 1 cent to $58.06 with 6,298 shares valued at $365,728 changing hands and Scotia Investments closed 5 cents higher at $2.30 exchanging 8,990 shares.
Losses| West Indian Tobacco lost 4 cents to settle at a 2 weeks’ low of $124.96 with 240 units changing hands.
Firm Trades| The securities remaining unchanged at last prices trades occurred and volume of changing hands in the market are First Caribbean International Bank that closed at $8.10 with 1,500 units, NCB Financial trading 45,387 shares at $5.10, Trinidad Cementexchanging 4,066 units at $4.20 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL that ended at $23 with 2,540 units.
JSE stocks jump again
Scotia Group climbed $2.89 on Friday to help push market indices.
Prices at the close of Friday on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange surged higher leading to big gains in the market indices as 23 securities changed hands with 13 rising, 8 declined and 2 traded firm.
Berger Paints jumped $3.57 to $15 at the close and Scotia Group moved up by $2.89 to end at $48, while Jamaica Producers traded 1.57 million units to be the leading trade.
Main market activity led to 5,005,392 units valued at $111,349,381 trading compared to 11,263,035 units valued at $348,817,467 on Thursday. In the US dollar market trading accounted 30,490 units valued at US$7,315 from just one security, bringing the total trades in both markets to $112,292,958.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index surged 3,477.64 points to 288,360.63.The JSE Index jumped 3,168.52 points to 262,729.14. The JSE US dollar Equities Index eked out a 0.05 points rise to close at 184.96.
Trading ended with an average of 217,626 units for an average of $4,841,277 in contrast to 536,335 units for an average of $16,610,356 on Thursday. 
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 283,480 units valued at $3,630,990 and previously 286,773 units for an average of $3,573,357. In contrast, August closed with average of 536,395 units at $1,905,441 for each security traded.
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 a very strong 14 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices, up from 10 on Thursday and 4 with lower offers, the same as Thursday.
Big jump for JSE on Thursday
C&W traded over 2 million shares on Thursday.
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange was dominated by Grace and Cable & Wireless with largest volumes traded on Thursday and by big gains in the indices.
Market activity ended with 21 securities changing hands, 13 advanced, 4 declined and 2 traded firm at the last prices of the day, while 3 traded in the US dollar market and 1 traded in the bond market.
In the main activity, Berger Paints concluded trading, 3 cents higher at $11.43, with 218,203 shares changing hands, Cable & Wireless finished with a loss of 4 cents at $1.01, with 2,029,588 stock units trading, Caribbean Cement ended $1 higher at $28.50, with 120,165 shares, Carreras finished 50 cents higher at $12.50, with 663,846 stock units, Grace Kennedy added 10 cents at $42.60, with 5,877,213 units valued $249 million. Jamaica Broilers gained 70 cents to end at $18, with 120,816 stock units, Jamaica Producers rose 10 cents higher to $15.10, with 189,307 units, Jamaica Stock Exchange traded 55 cents higher at $7, with 40,135 shares, JMMB Group ended with a loss of 53 cents at $22.36, with 8,567 stock units, Kingston Wharves jumped $2.01 trading at $33, with 2,600 units, 1834 Investments ended trading at $1.40, with 9,167 stock units, 
PanJam Investment traded $5.09 higher at $41, with 38,430 shares, Radio Jamaica ended at $1.12, with 319,721 stock units, Sagicor Group ended with a loss of 20 cents at $34.05, trading 35,641 units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund concluded trading $1.75 higher at $13.80, with 57,493 shares, Salada Foods traded 50 cents higher at $8.50, with 10,250 units. Scotia Group rose 10 cents to $45.11, with 1,117,306 shares, Seprod closed $1 higher at $31, with 23,889 shares and Supreme Ventures ended trading with a loss of 29 cents at $10.81, with 7,384 units.
In the main market preference segment, Proven preference share finished at $.2, with 111,300 units trading.
In the US dollar market, Productive Business Solution US ordinary share lost 7.5 US cents and closed at 57.5 US cents while trading 325,433 units, Proven Investments US ordinary share closed at 23.99 US cents, exchanging 228,420 units while Money Market Brokers US dollar 6% preference share lost 2 US cents to end at US$1.10 trading 41,300 units.
Grace, C&W in big trades
Grace Kennedy had the largest trade – 5.9 m units on Thursday.
Trading on the Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday was dominated by Grace Kennedy with just under 5.9 million units valued $249 million and Cable & Wireless with 2 million shares.
The market closed with 21 securities changing hands, 13 advanced, 4 declined and 2 traded firm and 3 trading in the US dollar market. Trading in the main market ended with 11,263,035 units valued at $348,817,467 compared to 4,718,872 units valued at 99,127,989 on Wednesday, while in the US dollar market 595,153 units changed hands carrying a value of US$287,330. Overall trading in both markets came to J$386,170,423, in addition, the NCB Financial 6 percent bond traded 27 million units for a value of $3,542,985,900.
Trading ended with an average of 536,335 units for an average of $16,610,356 in contrast to 188,755 units for an average of $3,965,120 on Wednesday. 
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 286,773 units valued at $3,573,357 and previously 273,638 units valued at an average of $2,921,507. In contrast, August closed with average of 536,395 units at $1,905,441 for each security traded.
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 10 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Friday is the last trading day of the month when fund managers usually push the prices of selected stocks to influence the performance of their funds, as such investors should be on the lookout for such action.
