Juniors inching forward to new highs

Jamaican Teas traded at a new closing high of $9.50 on Monday.

The junior market ended trading on Monday at another new closing high, with index rising just by 2.35 points at the close to sit at 2,831.64, after 16 securities traded, two less than on Friday, with the prices of 10 rising and 3 declining.
The market closed with 17 stocks with bids higher than their last sale and 2 with lower offers than the last sale, signalling a continuation of gains ahead.
The market ended with very low volume of stocks changing hands, ending at 426,481 units valued at $2,702,243 passing through the market, compared to 204,282 units valued at $1,106,948, on Friday.
An average of 26,655 units with an average value of $168,890 traded, compared to 11,349 units with an average value of $61,497 on the previous trading day. The average for the month to date is 169,586 units with an average value of $900,610 versus 177,108 units with an average value of $939,121 for the preceding trading day. The average for December, ended at 131,147 units, with an average value of $672,488.
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging gained 10 cents to close at $20.10 with 145 units changing hands, Blue Power closed with 100 units changing hands at $40.40, Cargo Handlers end at $20.50, after 25,100 shares were traded. Caribbean Cream exchanged 8,167 shares and rose 6 cents, to close at $7.36, Caribbean Flavours put through 67,011 units and gained $1, to end at $9.50, Consolidated Bakeries rose just 1 cent in trading 11,900 shares to close at new closing high of $3.01. General Accident fell 10 cents at the close of trading, with 4,495 shares at $3, Honey Bun climbed 60 cents and closed with 75,936 shares changing hands at $6.90, Jamaican Teas traded 300 shares to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $9.50 after rising by 90 cents. Jetcon Corporation closed trading with 75,936 shares, to end with a gain of 32 cents to $10.42. KLE Group gained 1 cent and ended with 95,562 units changing hands at $2.50, Lasco Distributors ended trading with 8,000 units changing hands to end at $7 after falling 30 cents. Lasco Financial had 18,648 shares changing hands and rose 5 cents to end at $4, Lasco Manufacturing with 5,997 units changing hands and closed with a gain of 5 cents at $5.20, Paramount Trading closed with a loss of 12 cents at $3.10 with 67,618 shares changing hands and tTech closed trading with 15,948 units changing hands to end at a record $6.90.

Sharp drop trading Trinidad stocks

Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Monday resulted in sharp decline in the number of active securities and declines in the two main indices.
The market closed with 10 securities changing hands in contrast to 16 on Friday with 1 stock advancing, 2 declining and 7 unchanged. A total of 174,656 units valued at $3,712,321 traded compared to Friday’s trades of 662,006 shares valued at $5,506,299.
The Composite Index declined 2.06 points to 1,223.02, the All T&T Index dropped 4.14 points to 1,830.07 while the Cross Listed Index gained a mere 0.01 point to 82.44.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 10 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| National Enterprises gained 8 cents to close at $10.85 with 7,540 units being exchanged, to be the sole stock rising.
Losses| First Citizens sustained a fall of 93 cents, closing at $34 with trades of 27,147 valued at $922,998 and Republic Financial Holdings lost 9 cents to close at $108.19 with 6,719 units exchanged for a value of $726,929.
Firm Trades| Clico Investment was unchanged at $22.52 with only 245 shares traded, Grace Kennedy closed at $2.68 with a mere 10 shares changing hands, Guardian Holdings closed at $13.31 with 5,600 units exchanged while Scotia Investments closed at $2.23 with 5,400 shares changing owners. Scotiabank held firm at $58.75, closing with 10,000 units traded at a value of $587,500, Trinidad & Tobago NGL remained at $21, after trading 48,309 shares valued at $1,014,499 and Trinidad Cement closed at $4.50 with 63,686 units transacted.

Bulls stampeding Jamaican stocks

Stock prices followed Friday’s surge on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday, moving the market higher, with gains of 9.5 percent for the year to date, after the main market started the year with moderate gains.
The movement over the past three trading days has brought the gains in the market in line with the junior market that previously had gains that were 3 times that of the Jamaica Stock Exchange main market.
At the close, the all All Jamaica Composite Index leapt 3,931.57 points to close at 230,053.06, the JSE Market Index surged 3,515.51 points to finish at 210,082.88 and the JSE combined index climbed sharply by 3,283.99 points, to close at 223,917.56.
Trading resulted in 12,789,852 units valued at $79,186,131 changing hands, compared to 2,882,798 units valued at $55,189,818 changing hands on Friday. Of the stocks traded, the junior market accounted for 426,481 units valued at $2,702,243.
The market closed with 42 securities changing hands, with 24 stocks rising and 9 falling in the overall market, including 10 stocks rising and 2 falling, in the junior market. A total of 8 securities ended at new 52 weeks’ closing highs.
The average trade for the day in the main market ended at 149,740 shares compared to an average of 111,605 units traded on Friday. For the month to date, an average of 175,757 shares compared to an average of 201,775 units on the previous trading day. The average for the month of December ended at 549,379 units.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator was at its highest level with reading shows 26 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
In market activity, Berger Paints traded at an intraday 52 weeks’ high of $10.56 but declined by 5 cents in closing at $10.46 after trading 10,000 shares, Cable and Wireless closed with 221,233 units changing hands at $1.20, Caribbean Cement lost 39 cents and traded 39,262 shares to close at $33.51. Carreras closed at $66.75, gaining 5 cents with 8,652 shares changing hands, Grace Kennedy had 32,126 units trading to close at $40.50, after losing 14 cents, Jamaica Broilers gained 7 cents and closed at $15.20 with 11,700 shares changing hands. Jamaica Producers traded 7,647 shares, rising 56 cents to end a new closing high of $13.06, Jamaica Stock Exchange closed at $5.60 having traded 178,916 shares, JMMB Group climbed to a 52 weeks’ closing high of $16.90 with gains of 90 cents and 8,633 units trade. Kingston Wharves retreated slightly from the rarefied heights to end trading 4,625 units and losing $1, to close at $33, Mayberry Investments traded 1,020 shares with a loss of 25 cents to close at $5, National Commercial Bank climbed higher at a 52 weeks’ high of $60, gaining $2 after swapping 61,840 shares. Pan Jamaican gained 10 cents and closed at $30 with 27,659 units being exchanged, Portland JSX closed at $9 with 10,000 units trading. Pulse Investments traded 12,500 units, gaining 83 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $6.00, Radio Jamaica rose 5 cents, closing at $1.35 with 27,693 shares traded, Sagicor Group closed with 112,763 shares changing hands with a gain of 99 cents at $30. Sagicor Real Estate fund traded 12,627 units and closed at $10, Salada closed at $8 having traded 148,787 shares, Scotia Group ended with 9,771 shares changing hands at $39. Scotia Investments traded 14,891 units, losing 49 cents to close at $33, Sterling Investments lost 15 cents to close at $15.60 after trading 124,700 units, Supreme Ventures traded 11,259,836 shares and closed at $5.21 and Proven Investments traded 15,300 ordinary shares to close at 23 US cents.

Sharp jump for JSE stock index

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National Commercial Bank (NCB) moved up to a new record high of $60 and Jamaica Producers climbed to a new high of $13 helping to push the main market sharply upwards with the all Jamaica composite Index well over the 230,000 points level.
National Commercial Bank moved up to a new record high of $59 and Jamaica Producers traded just 4,554 units and had no stock on offer while NCB which started trading at $58.20 and rose to $60 but fell back $57 with 56,500 shares trading with the bid back at $59, NCB has only one offer posted to sell 10,000 units at $63.20, Sagicor Group traded 112,753 shares at $30, but now has no stock on offer. Seprod has not traded but has no stock on offer with the bid at $30.
All major markets indices hit new records during the morning session but with moderate trading taking place. The all Jamaica Composite Index jumped 4,740.24 points to 230,861.73 the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index leapt 3,933.07 points to 210,805.97, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index surged 4,238.60 points to 224,566.64 and the junior market index inched 0.26 points to 2,829.55.
Securities changing hands, amount to 27 at 10:45 am compared to 28 trading on Friday. A total of 12 securities advanced and 7 declined, resulting in a volume of 880,842 shares changing hands, carrying a value of $12,045,282, versus 554,414 shares changing hands, carrying a value of $6,229,690, the average trade for the early session amounted to 29,957 units, compared to 19,801 shares previously.

Stocks on fire in Kingston

Bulls pushing Jamaican stock to new highs almost daily for 2017.

Prices surged on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday resulted in the daily highest points gain in history of the market.
The huge move was the result mainly of sharp gains in the prices of National Commercial Bank, Scotia Group, Kingston Wharves, Jamaica Producers Group. It was a day when both the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange and the junior market closed at record levels as the bull market which had its genesis in late 2014, continues to build momentum with the supply of stocks on the wane, while demand builds.
At the close, the All Jamaica Composite Index jumped sharply by 9,082.60 points, to close at 226,121.49, the JSE Market Index surged 8,121.44 points to finish at 206,567.37 and the JSE combined index climbed 7,716.24 points to close at 220,633.57.
For the consecutive trading day, volume going through the market was moderate, with less than $100 million of trading. At the close, 2,882,798 units valued at $55,189,818 changed hands, compared to 3,687,829 units valued at $80,933,897 changing hands on Thursday. Of the stocks traded, the junior market accounted for 204,282 units valued at $1,106,948.
The market closed with 42 securities changing hands, with 24 stocks rising and 9 falling in the overall market, including 10 stocks rising and 2 falling, in the junior market. A total of 8 securities ended at new 52 weeks’ closing highs.
The average trade for the day in the main market, ended at 111,605 shares, compared to an average of 116,490 units traded on Thursday. For the month to date, an average of 201,775 shares traded compared to an average of 291,945 units on the previous trading day. The average for the month of December ended at 549,379 units.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 21 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
In market activity, Berger Paints gained just 1 cent to end a new closing high at $10.51 while trading 11,500 shares, Cable and Wireless ended with 137,034 units at $1.20, after rising 2 cents, Caribbean Cement dropped $2.60 in trading 79,400 shares in closing at $33.90. Carreras closed at $66.70 with 26,859 shares changing hands, 1834 Investments gained 4 cents in trading 2,419 units at $1.34, Grace Kennedy had 6,092 units trading to close at $40.64, after declining 1 cent, Jamaica Broilers rose 13 cents and closed at $15.13 with 4,787 shares changing hands. Jamaica Producers traded 27,986 shares after rising by $1 to end at a new high of $12.50, Jamaica Stock Exchange rose 10 cents to close at $5.60, having traded 127,613 shares, JMMB Group jumped to a new closing 52 weeks’ high of $16 in trading 27,146 units, after rising by 50 cents. Kingston Wharves jumped sharply by $6.25, to end trading with 6,500 units and closed at 52 weeks’ high of $34, Mayberry Investments traded 500,000 shares with gains of 25 cents, to close at $5.25, National Commercial Bank surged $5.98 to close at an all-time high of $58 after swapping 38,550 shares. 138 Student Living traded 100,000 units at $4.50, Pan Jamaican shed 10 cents and closed at $29.90, with 765,562 units traded, Portland JSX closed at $9 while trading 6,000 units, Pulse Investments traded 42,700 units, falling 13 cents to close at $5.17 after it traded at an intraday high of $5.65. Radio Jamaica lost 5 cents, closing at $1.30 with 35,778 shares traded, Sagicor Group closed with 8,935 shares changing hands, with a fall of 99 cents to $19.01, Sagicor Real Estate Fund gained 50 cents in trading 9,333 units and closed at $10. Scotia Group, with 470,682 shares changing hands jumped $2.89 cents to a 52 weeks’ closing high of $39. Supreme Ventures gained 11 cents in trading 39,240 shares to close at $5.21 and JMMB Group 7.50% preference shares traded 200,000 units to close at $1.10.

Juniors climb to 2,829 points on Friday

Access Financial Services’ traded at a new high of $27.50 on Friday.

The junior market ended trading on Friday at another new closing high, with index rising by 18.02 points at the close to sit at 2,829.29, after 18 securities traded, two more than on Thursday, with the prices of 10 rising and 2 declining.
The market ended with very low volume of stocks changing hands, ending at 204,282 units valued at $1,106,948 passing through the market, compared to 542,606 units valued at $3,545,918, on Thursday.
An average of a mere 11,349 units with an average value of $61,497 traded, compared to 33,913 units with an average value of $221,620 2 on the previous trading day. The average for the month to date is 177,108 units with an average value of $939,121 versus 186,317 units with an average value of $987,878 for the preceding trading day. The average for December, ended at 131,147 units, with an average value of $672,488.
The market closed with 12 stocks with bids higher than their last sale and 1 with a lower offer than the last sale.
At the close of trading, investors pushed Access Financial $2.20 to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $27.50 with 140 units changing hands, Blue Power closed with 500 units changing hands at $40.40, CAC 2000 traded 100 shares and gained 39 cents to end at $6.40, Cargo Handlers end at $20.50, after 3,679 shares were traded. Caribbean Flavours pushed through 6,647 units and lost $1.50 to end at $8.50, Caribbean Producers exchanged 4,000 shares but fell 15 cents to $4, Consolidated Bakeries rose 35 cents in trading 13,761 shares to close at $3, Dolphin Cove ended at $14 with 1,110 shares trading to gain 50 cents. General Accident gained 10 cents at the close of trading, with 34,160 shares at $3.10, Honey Bun shed 35 cents and closed with 19,174 shares changed hands at $6.30, Jetcon Corporation closed trading with just 650 shares, to end with a gain of 56 cents to $10.10. KLE Group ended with 8,200 units changing hands at $2.49, Lasco Distributors ended trading with 16,985 units changing hands to end at $7.30. Lasco Financial had 45,650 shares changing hands and rose 15 cents to end at $3.95, Lasco Manufacturing with 3,240 units changing hands and closed with a gain of 5 cents at $5.15, Medical Disposables gained 30 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ high of $6.20 with 2,850 shares trading. Paramount Trading closed with a gain of 2 cents at $3.22 with 2,500 shares changing hands and tTech closed trading with 40,936 units changing hands to end at a record $6.90.

6 stocks rise 6 fall on TTSE on Friday

The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed on Friday with an increased number of 16 securities changing hands compared to 15 on Thursday. A total of 6 stocks advanced, 4 were unchanged and 6 declined as 662,006 units were exchanged, for $5,506,299 compared to 482,036 shares valued at $3,773,912 on Thursday.
The Composite Index advanced 1.17 points to 1,225.08, the All T & T Index gained 0.28 points to 1,834.21 and the Cross Listed Index also gained 0.28 points to 82.43.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 7 stocks with bids higher than last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Gains| Clico Investment closed 2 cents higher at $22.52, with 142,187 units traded at a value of $3,200,232, First Caribbean International gained 3 cents trading 31,963 units to close at a 52 weeks high of $8.53, Guardian Holdings exchanged 7,600 shares and gained 18 cents to end at $13.31. JMMB Group added 4 cents to close at a 52 weeks high of $1.20 with an exchange of 364,378 units valued at $437,724, Scotia Investments closed at $2.23, gaining 2 cents with 76,418 shares changing hands and Scotiabank gained 5 cents, in closing at $58.75 with 1,000 shares traded.
Losses| Massy Holdings closed at $51.40, losing 2 cents with only 75 units changing owners, National Commercial Bank was down 7 cents to $3.28 trading 1,000 shares and Point Lisas lost 5 cents to close at $3.70 with an exchange of 530 units. Republic Financial Holdings closed at $108.28, after falling 6 cents with 9,302 shares being exchanged at a value of $1,007,221, Trinidad Cement slid 5 cents to $4.50, with 18,402 shares traded and West Indian Tobacco exchanged 100 units to close at $127.
Firm Trades| Grace Kennedy closed at $2.68 with 100 shares traded, Prestige Holdings remained unchanged at $11 with 169 units changing hands, Sagicor Financial closed at $8.50 trading 2,582 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL held firm at $21 with an exchange of 6,200 units.

NCB pushes all Jamaica by 2,600 points

On the back of a strong 49 percent jump in first quarter profits to December last year to $3.56 billion, National Commercial Bank rose to $55 and helped pushed the all Jamaica Composite Index over the 218,000 points level in the first half an hour of trading on Friday and more than 219,600 by 10:45.
By the cut off of this report, the stock hit a new high of $26.98 with 18,574 shares trading. Jamaica Producers jumped to $12.50, a new high with 2,773 and Access Financial traded at $27.50 for a new high.
All major markets indices hit new records during the morning session but with moderate trading taking place. The all Jamaica Composite Index jumped 2,607.52 points to 219,646.41 the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index leapt 2,331.57 points to 200,777.50, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index surged 2,504.69 points to 215,422.02 and the junior market index climbed 33.33 points to 2,844.60. By 11:17 am the all Jamaican Index pushed over the 220,146.59 rising by 3,091.13 points and 201,209.93 Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index.
Securities changing hands, amount to 28 at 10:45 am as a total of 13 advanced and 12 declined, resulting in a volume of 554,414 shares changing hands, carrying a value of $6,229,690. The average trade for the early session amounted to just 19,801 units.

Juniors crawl to a new record

tTech closed at a new all-time high of $6.90 on Thursday.

The Jamaica Stock Exchange junior market ended trading on Thursday with a new closing high, with index rising by a mere 2.53 points at the close to sit at 2,811.27, after the prices of 6 stocks gained and 5 declined, but the market ended with very low volume passing through.
The market trading ended with 16 securities trading versus 19 on Wednesday, with 3 closing at 52 weeks’ high. The volume of stocks changing hands, ended at 542,606 units valued at $3,545,918, compared to 6,155,150 units valued at $25,573,851, on Wednesday.
An average of 33,913 units with an average value of $221,620 traded, compared to 323,955 units with an average value of $1,345,992 on the previous trading day. The average for the month to date is 186,317 units with an average value of $987,878 versus 195,282 units with an average value of $1,013,387 for the preceding trading day. The average for December, ended at 131,147 units, with an average of $672,488.
The market closed with 12 stocks with bids higher than their last sale and 2 with lower offers than the last sale.
At the close of trading, investors slashed $2.60 off the price of AMG Packaging to close at $20 with 18,888 units changing hands, Cargo Handlers shed 35 cents to end at $20.50, after 1,445 shares were traded, Caribbean Flavours pushed through 1,142 units to end at $10. Caribbean Producers exchanged 126,334 shares but fell 15 cents to $4, General Accident gained 10 cents at the close of trading, with 70,443 shares at $3, Honey Bun closed with 10,502 shares having changed hands at $6.65, Jamaican Teas rose 60 cents to end at record high of $8.60 with 1,000 shares having passed through the market. Jetcon Corporation closed trading with 128,963 shares, to end with a fall of 76 cents to $9.54, KLE Group ended with 100 units changing hands at $2.49, Lasco Distributors ended trading with 73,952 units changing hands to end at $7.30. Lasco Financial had 28,397 shares changing hands to end at $3.80, Lasco Manufacturing with 44,145 units changing hands, closed with a fall of 10 cents at $5.10, Medical Disposables gained 35 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ high of $5.90 with 100 shares trading. Paramount Trading closed at $3.20 with 12,800 shares changing hands, tTech closed trading with 20,000 units changing hands and gained 89 cents to end at a record $6.90 and Derrimon preference share, rose 12 cents to close at $2.12 as 4,395 units passed through the market.

New record close for JSE majors

Berger hit at a new 52 weeks’ high on Thursday.

The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, rose more than 1,000 points on Thursday to new record highs, but advancing stocks were equal to declining ones in the overall market.
The high levels of trading above the $220 million market seen in the market for the previous 5 trading days ended on Thursday with less than $100 million of trading. At the close, 3,687,829 units valued at $80,933,897 changed hands, compared to 13,315,100 units valued at $237,592,401 changing hands on Wednesday. Of the stocks traded, the junior market accounted for 542,606 units valued at $3,545,918.
The market closed with 43 securities changing hands, with 16 stocks rising and falling in the overall market, including 6 stocks rising and 5 falling, in the junior market. A total of 8 securities ended at new 52 weeks’ closing highs.
At the close the All Jamaica Composite Index gained 1,486.31 points to close at 217,038.89. The JSE Market Index rose 1,268.01 points to finish at 198,445.93 and the JSE combined index climbed 1,077.42 points to close at 212,917.33.
The average trade for the day in the main market ended at 116,490 shares compared to an average of 275,383 units traded on Wednesday. An average of 291,945 units traded for the month to date, versus 467,399 units on the previous trading day. The average for the month of December ended at 549,379 units.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 21 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
In market activity, Berger Paints jumped $1, pushing the price to a new closing high at $10.50 while trading 123,265 shares, Cable and Wireless ended with 626,427 units at $1.18, after losing 7 cents, Caribbean Cement surged $3 in trading 865,850 shares to close at 52 weeks’ high of $36.50. Carreras closed at $66.70 with 27,280 shares changing hands, 1834 Investments traded 62,439 units at $1.30, Grace Kennedy had 50,652 units trading to close at $40.65, after gaining 15 cents, Jamaica Broilers lost 2 cents and closed at $15 with 21,213 shares changing hands. Jamaica Producers traded 250,000 shares after losing 30 cents to end $11.50, Jamaica Stock Exchange lost 10 cents to close at $5.50, having traded 51,865 shares, JMMB Group traded 114,080 units at $15.50, gaining 15 cents, Kingston Wharves ended up trading just 600 units and adding 26 cents to close at $27.75. Mayberry Investments traded 36,000 shares with gains of 75 cents, to close at $5, National Commercial Bank lost 58 cents to close at $52.02 after swapping 519,708 shares, Pan Jamaican gained 35 cents and closed at $30 with 26,688 units traded, Portland JSX closed at $9 after falling by 50 cents while trading 7,079 units. Pulse Investments traded 45,950 units, gaining 35 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $5.30, Radio Jamaica lost 5 cents, closing at $1.35 with 15,200 shares traded, Sagicor Group closed with 49,810 shares changing hands with a gain of 96 cents to $30. Sagicor Real Estate fund traded 20,400 units and closed at $9.50, Scotia Group, with 118,490 shares changing hands lost 89 cents to close at $36.11. Scotia Investments traded 28,694 units, gaining 99 cents to close at $33.49, Supreme Ventures lost 11 cents in trading 10,500 shares to close at $5.10 and Proven Investments traded 67,260 ordinary shares to close at 23 US cents.