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TTSE: Witco up 80c to $119

October 23, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Wednesday, 23rd October 2013 | West Indian Tobacco recorded an attractive gain of 80 cents to end the day at $119 as 2,000 shares traded. Overall activity on the Trinidad market was moderate with trading in 12 securities of which 5 advanced, 1 declined and 6 traded firm as 337,790 shares were traded valued at $2,935,278.

Agostini’s reached a new 52 weeks high trading 17,777 shares valued at $315,186 as the price climbed 13 cents to $17.73. First Citizens traded only 3,700 units to close up a cent at $35. Sagicor Financial Corporation had a volume of 162,031 shares changing hands for a value of $1,174,565 as the price closed firm at $7.25. Trinidad Cement had a volume of 85,000 shares valued at $198,973 with the price closing firm at $2.35. Scotia Investments contributed 30,000 shares with a value of $58,500, the price closed firm at $1.95, while Republic Bank closed up a cent at the end of trading at $112.02, as 474 units traded.

Clico Investment Fund, posted a volume of 32,990 shares valued at $709,285 and closed down by 23 cents to end at $21.50.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator showed bids for 4 stocks being higher and 3 stocks with offers lower than their last selling price.

C&W email to Google, October 30

October 23, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Cable & Wireless Jamaica will be moving its mail and portal services to Google Apps by October 30, 2013. In a release to customers, the company stated, “note that no other aspect of your service will be changing as a result of this move. These changes will result in an improvement in the breadth and quality of services. To accommodate for these changes, there are a number of items that you need to be aware of”.

New Password | In preparation for the move to Google, a change to your email password may be required. To be clear, your email address will not change. Once the mail services have been transitioned to Google, your email password will need to be at least eight characters. This change is necessary to be compatible with Google’s security requirements. If your password is already at least eight characters, you need make no change. If not, the company recommends that customers change their password immediately to avoid any possible downtime during the migration.

New User Agreement | LIME’s user agreement has been amended to include Google Terms of Service. The updated agreement can be viewed by simply clicking, here. The use of your cwjamaica.com email address and the associated services means that you accept these terms and conditions.

C&W says there are many advantages to Google Apps. “This includes 7.5+ Gigabytes of web mail storage. This means that your email can remain on the mail server indefinitely. In addition, we will now be able to offer you a more reliable mail service and you will be able to access your mail via your mobile phone or other mobile devices.”

Filed Under: Company News, General Business News Tagged With: C&WJ

FX: US$8M surplus purchases, J$ below $105

October 22, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Tuesday, 22nd October 2013 | The forex market reopened on Tuesday after the Heroes’ holiday closure with the currency purchased by dealers coming in at US$8 million more than the amount sold, only one trading day after the central bank’s intervention resulted in a surplus of US$4.5 million. The surplus should place some downward pressure on the rate in the short term at least.

Total purchases in the market on Tuesday represented two normal trading day’s transactions amounting to the equivalent of US$63,057,239 whiles sales totalled US$54,993,416.

The amount of US dollars purchased by dealers on Tuesday was US$58,328,934 at an average rate of $104.50 representing a 20 cents reduction on Friday’s close, while the amount sold was US$51,014,352 at an average rate of $104.99, down by 2 cents, having slipped back below the $105 mark.

There was buying for C$1,358,257, as the buying rate dropped by 54 cents to $99.997 whiles sales amounted to C$2,010,791 as the selling rate moved up by 87 cents to $103.26.

The amount of British Pounds purchased was £2,011,635 at $167.14, down 84 cents and selling amounted to £1,085,610 at a selling rate that was higher by 80 cents to $171.31.

Highs & lows | The highest buying rate for the US dollar was unchanged at $106.75 but the lowest buying rate increased 17 cents to $85.17. The highest selling rate was unchanged at $109.14 and the lowest selling rate dropped $16.99 to hit $85.01.

The highest buying rate for the Canadian dollar climbed $1.50 to end at $104.50. The lowest buying rate was 50 cents higher at $81.26 while the highest selling rate gained 25 cents to $104.75 and the lowest selling increased by 60 cents to $97.90.

The highest buying rate for the Pound was 30 cents higher at $172.30 while the lowest moved up $1.62 to $135.29. The highest selling rate was up $2.27 to $175.27 and the lowest selling gained a $1 to $163.80.

Filed Under: FX Market, Stock Market Tagged With: Daily Trading, FX Market, Trading Activity

JSE: Index up but trading down

October 22, 2013 by IC Insider.com

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Tuesday, 22nd October 2013 | On a very slow day on the Jamaica Stock Market, trading took place for 5,766,814 shares valued at $21,261,844 as most of the market indices enjoyed a rare ‘up’ day with the Main Market index gaining 514.60 to close at 82,320.71, while the all Jamaica index which closed at 80,536.70 fell by 905.44. The junior market, which has held up well in the past weeks saw the index inching up by 0.73 to 754.57. There was trading in stocks of 26 companies, with 11 rising and only 3 falling and 15 remained unchanged.

Main Market | Trading in the main market was subdued on the first trading day after the holiday close on Monday. In trading Carreras exchanged 49,207 units to close firm at $40; Desnoes & Geddes, which closed at $5 on Friday, closed today at $4.50 as 40,000 units changed hands; Jamaica Money Market Brokers traded 523,000 to close firm at $8.50; National Commercial Bank had only 9,457 units as the price closed up 50 cents at $18.50 but the stock is still weak. Salada Foods traded 13,588 units unchanged at $8.50; Scotia Group only exchanged 30,651 units to close at $20.50 an increase of 50 cents; Supreme Ventures had a big day with 1,395,754 units to close at $2.60 off by a cent and Proven Investments 8% preference, put in 743,000 units at $5.09.

Junior Market | Trading in the junior market saw Access Financial changing ownership of 56,579 units as the price closed firm at $8.40; Blue Power traded 24,918 units and closed at $9.50 for an increase of 22 cents; Caribbean Cream saw 414,165 units changing hands to close firm at $1.02; Caribbean Producers put in a big volume of 2,289,981 as the price closed firm at $2.08 as General Accident Insurance swapped just 14,400 shares at $1.61 followed by Lasco Distributors 31,800 units which closed firm at $1.50. Lasco Manufacturing had 31,400 units that traded firm at the close at $1.45 and Paramount Trading put through 37,810 unit to close at $3.30 up 25 cents.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator showed slight deterioration in market sentiment over Friday’s reading with bids for 3 stocks being higher and 7 stocks with offers lower than their last selling price. Interestingly, the junior market had 6 stocks with offers that were lower than the last selling price and no bids that were higher.

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Filed Under: JSE Main Market, Stock Market Tagged With: Daily Trading, JSE Company, Trading Activity

Ghana Stock market inching higher

October 22, 2013 by IC Insider.com

The Ghana Stock Exchange, which has been on a tear for 2013 having clocked up 71 percent up to the week ended October 11, went on to record further gains this past week with the market index closing at 2,088.92 points to be up 74.12 percent year-to-date after recording another positive week of gains.

Nine stocks recorded price gains for the week and 3 declined with Ecobank Ghana gaining 11 percent to close at GH¢5, still leaving the PE ratio under 2 times this year’s earnings. SIC Insurance Company gained 5 percent to end at GH¢0.40 but the stock still looks cheap with ongoing earnings resulting in a PE of just over 1 times earnings and Tullow Oil Plc traded up GH¢0.50 to close at GH¢31.70. At the close, the bid for this stock was GH¢32 and the stock now trades at around 25 times 2013 earnings after writing off exploration cost.

The Cedi is the Ghana currency with approximately GH¢2 equals US1 dollar.

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Filed Under: Global Market, Stock Market Tagged With: Ghana Stock Exchange, PE Ratios, Trading Activity

TTSE: Republic Bank drops

October 22, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Tuesday, 22nd October 2013 | Republic Bank, an IC Insider Buy Rated pick, which enjoyed a big $6.06 jump in price in Monday’s trading to end at $117.17, a new 52 weeks high, fell back $5.16 in Tuesday’s trading to close at $112.01 while trading 3,632 units.

There was trading in 12 securities of which 3 advanced, 3 declined and 6 traded firm with 305,245 shares changing hands valued at $10,625,226.

Ansa Mcal traded 88,687 shares for a value of $5,879,932 as the price closed at $66.30; Angostura Holdings closed firm at $13.50 with 1,000 units trading; First Citizens Bank contributed 8,011 shares with a value of $ 280,375 as the price closed down a cent at $34.99; Jamaica Money Market Brokers with a volume of 40,249 shares, traded for $29,392 as the price held firm at 73 cents. At the close, demand had eased to only 11,000 units at 65 cents while the offer was for 195,077 units at 73 cents.

Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation added 850 shares and closed firm at $3.77; Scotia Bank gained 75 cents to end at $71.01, a new 52 weeks high, while trading 2,907 units. Scotia Investments contributed 16,000 shares with a value of $31,200 and closed unchanged at $1.95. West Indices Tobacco traded 5,924 units to close firm at $118.20.

Clico Investment Fund posted a volume of 133,795 shares valued at $2,907,220 and declined by 21 cents to end at $21.73.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator showed bids for 3 stocks being higher and 5 stocks with offers lower than their last selling price.

Filed Under: Stock Market, TTSE Market Tagged With: Daily Trading, Trading Activity, TTSE

Remittances up, but barely

October 22, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Bank of Jamaica is reporting improved remittance flows for July 2013 and for the year to date. According to the central bank, net remittances were US$149.7 million, an increase of US$3.4 million or 2.3 per cent relative to the corresponding period of 2012. The growth in the net inflows reflected both an increase in gross remittance inflows and a contraction in outflows.

Gross remittance inflows for the month were US$170.5 million, an increase of US$1.6 million relative to July last year.

The rise in total remittance inflows reflected an increase of US$3.3 million in inflows through Remittance Companies and a decrease of US$1.7 million in inflows via Other Remittances. This is consistent with IC Insider’s findings for when there is strong instability in the foreign exchange market like what occurred after May of this year.

Total remittance outflows for the review month decreased by US$1.7 million to US$20.8 million.

Net remittances for January to July 2013 were US$1.049 billion, an increase of US$11.7 million over 2012. The outturn reflects a reduction in outflows which were partly offset by inflows.

For the review period, total remittance inflows were US$1,190.8 million, a decrease of US$4.9 million but outflows declined by an even larger amount of US$16.6 million thus contributing to an increase in the net inflows.

The decrease in total remittance inflows reflected a US$15.6 million or 1.5 per cent contraction in inflows through Remittances Companies, which was partly offset by a US$10.7 million or 6.2 per cent increase in flows through the Other Remittances sub-category.

Filed Under: Economy, FX Market, Stock Market Tagged With: BOJ, Economy, FX Market

Sagicor Real Estate X Fund oversubscribed

October 22, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Sagicor Real Estate X Fund, the initial public offer (IPO) of shares which started on September 24 is reported to be oversubscribed and closed on October 18, 2013, the scheduled closing date. The shares are to be listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange.

The issue was for a minimum of 200 million shares with a maximum of 500,000,000 shares available for subscription in the IPO at a price of $5 each. It is unclear if the oversubscription is for the minimum amount or the initial maximum amount but the company spoke of overwhelming support for the issue.

The terms of the issue allow “removes” for more shares to be issued in the event that applications are received for more shares than available for subscription and sale in order to satisfy all or part of the applications in excess of the 500,000,000 shares, but not exceeding a further 750,000,000 shares.

Sagicor Jamaica and PIF have indicated that they jointly intend to exercise their options to buy shares at the IPO price with a view of holding up to 80% of the issued shares of X FUND.

Filed Under: Company News, General Business News, Initial Public Offers, Stock Market Tagged With: JSE Company, Sagicor

TTSE: Big jump in Republic Bank, up $6.06

October 21, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Monday, 21st october 2013 | Republic Bank, an IC Insider Buy Rated pick, enjoyed a big $6.06 jump in price in Monday’s trading to end at $117.17, a new 52 weeks high as 1,807 units changed hands during trading. The stock is now priced at 16 times 2013 earnings, well below the 23 times that First Citizens and Scotia Bank are currently valued. For Republic to get a similar valuation, it would require a price of around $170. As such the stock still remains on the Buy Rated list. Also, with limited supply currently available, we expect the continuation of upward price movements.

Republic’s gain helped to push the all TTSE Index up 19.74 to 1,965.81. Market activity resulted from trading in 12 securities of which 3 advanced, 3 declined and 6 traded firm and 1,087,382 shares changing hands valued at $2,104,212.

Angostura Holdings closed firm at $13.50 with 1,771 units trading; First Citizens Bank contributed 16,329 shares with a value of $571,515 as the price closed firm at $35; Guardian Holdings traded 5,000 units and the price was down a cent to close at $15.24; Jamaica Money Market Brokers with a volume of 378,295 shares, traded for $276,155 as the price held firm at the end at 73 cents. At the end, there was demand for over 39,000 units at 73 cents.

National Commercial Bank exchanged 670,000 shares for a value of $763,500 as the priced closed down 4 cents to $1.14 but the bid was at $1.16 for only 2,000 units and offer of nearly 295,000 units at $1.18. Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation added 10,650 shares valued at $40,151 as the price remained unchanged at $3.77.

IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator showed bids for 3 stocks being higher and 3 stocks with offers lower than their last selling price. This coupled with the lack of supply in the market to meet demand suggest that the market continues to look somewhat bullish for some stocks.

Filed Under: Company News, Stock Market, TTSE Market Tagged With: Daily Trading, Trading Activity, TTSE

Buy Rated: TTSE stocks climbing, JSE falters

October 21, 2013 by IC Insider.com

Friday, 18th October 2013 | Performance in the Jamaica stock market has been struggling these last two weeks as a large pension fund liquidated its stock portfolio and has helped to drive prices down for several stocks. In addition, Carreras is suffering from negative sentiment from a poor June quarter result and concerns about demand for cigarettes caused by the smoking ban helped to aggravate the decline. As such, our Buy Rated selection have not done well in this market.

While we have failed to score in the Jamaican market, that is not the case down under in Trinidad. Jamaica Money Market Brokers supply of stocks has dried up in both markets at prevailing prices and on the Trinidad market, the price has gone up 46 percent since it made the Buy Rated list; Grace is up 25 percent, Sagicor Financial is up 7 percent, One Caribbean Media is up 5 percent and Scotia Investment 4 percent. Guardian Holdings is down 6 percent, Neal & Massy and Point Lisas are down marginally. Of course, Trinidad Cement is still up 135 percent after some profit taking but still have lots of room to run and First Citizens was up 52 percent to when we pulled the Buy Rated plug and removed it from the list.

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