Trading closed Thursday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange with a fall in the volume and value of stocks switching owners from Wednesday, resulting in the major indices of the Main Market rose, the Junior Market index fell and the JSE USD Market index just popped higher. At the end of trading, the prices of 43 shares rose, 33 declined and 30 remained firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index rose 1,826.66 points to wrap up trading at 329,769.34, the All Jamaican Composite Index dipped 411.34 points to end at 364,712.00, while the JSE Main Index rose 1,950.74 points to settle at 319,366.40, the Junior Market Index dropped by 5.65 points to 3,402.41 and the JSE USD Market Index increased 0.23 points to 202.94.
At the close, 8,965,784 shares were exchanged in all three markets, down from 20,061,863 units on Wednesday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to a mere $35.71 million, down from $83.38 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 1,092,929 shares for US$65,621, up from a mere 203,548 units at US$5,046 on Wednesday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led with 1.50 million shares, followed by Sterling Investments with 967,647 stocks and Wigton Energy with 598,612 units.
Junior Market trading was very thin, with Fosrich leading trading with 834,417 shares, followed by Derrimon Trading with 325,218 stocks and Dolla Financial with 200,500 units.
In the preference segment, Eppley 7.75% preference share gained $1.65 to close at $21.
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