Margaritaville Turks traded 531,220 shares at 20 US cents on friday
Trading volumes remained low on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday even as the active number of securities remain at elevated levels. The market closed with 35 securities changing hands, accounting for just 3,475,337 units valued at $40,616,397, in all market segments. The junior market had 2,388,762 shares valued at $2,388,762 trading.
Investors pushed the price of 13 stocks in the overall market up, 13 down, including 3 stocks rising and 4 declining, from the junior market. The JSE Market Index moved down by 192.18 points to end at 153,690.27. The all Jamaica Composite Index declined by 214.93 points to close at 170,713.62 and the JSE combined index slipped 54.76 points, to close at 164,532.54.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the 
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading showed 18 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
At the end of market activities, Berger Paints traded with 4,500 shares to close at $4.38, Cable & Wireless fell 5 cents and closed at $1.28 after trading 143,757 units, Carreras dropped $1.49 with 20,051 units trading to close at $64.51, Grace Kennedy traded 100 units to gain $1 and closed at $90. Hardware and Lumber jumped $3.50 to end at $16 as 500 shares changed hands, Jamaica Broilers closed with a fall of 43 cents at $14.21 while trading 3,664 shares, Jamaica Producers traded 10,000 shares at $35, Margaritaville Turks traded 531,220 to end at 20 US cents.
National Commercial Bank traded 37,465 shares, to close with a fall of 19 cents at $39.80. Pan Jamaican Investment climbed back $1.70 to close trading at $122.70 but with just 400 shares changing hands, Radio Jamaica rose 3 cents in trading 70,612 shares at $1.30, Sagicor Group ended with 71,400 shares changing hands, fell 20 cents, to end at $22.30. Scotia Group closed with a fall of $2.70 to end at $30 while 81,365 units changed hands, Scotia Investments fell $1.09 to $25 with 12,880 shares changing hands, Sterling Investments lost 92 cents and closed at $11.98 with 24,800 shares trading. Supreme Ventures closed at $5 with 16,339 shares changing hands, after falling 29 cents and Proven Investments traded with a gain of 2 US cents to 20 US cents with 49,000 shares trading.
$1.60 with 10,500 shares changing hands. General Accident traded at $2.10 with 50,000 shares trading, 
All four issues had offerings of $400 million each but while the 30 days instrument received bids of $474,943,600 and ended with a yield of 5.37 percent the same level as the previous issue, the 91 days received $508,470,400 at a yield that rose from 5.65 percent to 5.80 percent, the 181 days received just 366,081,700 with the yield rising from 5.82 percent to 5.91 percent and the nine months instrument saw just $167,987,400 and enjoyed an average yield of 6.414 percent.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading showed 12 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 10 with lower offers.
Jamaica Producers traded 2,000 shares at $35, Kingston Wharves loss 13 cents in trading 4,000 stock unit at $11.52, 
On Thursday it took an average of 125.33 Jamaican dollars to purchase one United States dollar, at the end of foreign exchange trading, as the currency held above the J$125 mark for the second day in a row. 
A total of US$28,555,052 was sold versus US$42,868,784 on Wednesday with the selling rate rising 19 cents to $125.33. The Canadian dollar buying rate rose 11 cents to end at $92.86 with dealers buying C$849,941 and selling C$584,510, at an average rate that declined by $1.02 to $96.20. The rate for buying the British Pound climbed $3.37 to $180.56 for the purchase of £2,675,978, while £1,792,447 was sold, with the rate rising by $2.31 to $182.16.
Highs & Lows| Notable changes to the highest and lowest rates the Jamaican dollar traded at in the foreign exchange market on Thursday, include, a rise of $1.20 in the highest buying rate of the US dollar to end at $127, a decline of $1.05 in the highest buying rate of Canadian dollar to end at $95.50, a fall of $1 in the lowest selling rate to end at $90, a rise of $1.80 in the highest buying rate for the British Pound to $184.60, a drop of $4.79 to $144.42 in the lowest buying rate, a rise of $3.03 to $187.92 for the highest selling rate and a fall of $2.80 in the lowest selling rate to $170. 
with 13,135 shares trading, Jetcon Corporation traded 1,050 units to close with a loss of 5 cents at $2.75. KLE Group closed with 79,000 shares trading at $1.68, Lasco Distributors closed with 102,750 units trading with the price closing at $7.40 after gaining 10 cents. Lasco Financial closed at $3.15 with 14,400 shares changing hands after slipping 15 cents. Lasco Manufacturing fell 16 cents to close at $4.44 with 75,774 shares trading, Medical Disposables closed with 15,000 units changing hands at $3.50 and tTech traded 129,000 units at $4.50.
Scotiabank closed with 55 shares changing hands with a loss of 4 cents, to end at a 52 weeks’ low of $53.91 and Unilever Caribbean lost 1 cent in trading 88 shares, to close to at a 52 week’ low of $64.94.
The volume traded dropped sharply compared the the amount traded on Wednesday. 
Profit before taxation for the March quarter 
