Bulls may be lurching to pounce on Jamaican stocks.
Trading on the Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday ended with 24 securities changing hands, resulting in 22,131,577 units valued at $314,568,605 trading leading to a rise in the market indices.
The main market closed with 9 securities rising, 8 declining and 7 trading firm, as the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index increased by 727.45 points to 326,526.78 and the JSE Index advanced 662.79 points to close at 297,502.80.
In market activity, Barita Investments lost 25 cents and closed at $10, with 11,890 shares, Berger Paints ended at $19.05, with 25,531 stock units, Carreras concluded trading at $10.60, with 415,364 units, after rising 25 cents, Caribbean Cement lost 1 cents and finished at $37.99, with 7,555 shares, Ciboney Group fell 3 cents to 10 cents with 7,063,873 shares trading. Grace Kennedy ended trading at $49, with 32,450 shares, 
Jamaica Broilers traded with a rise of 50 cents at $21, exchanging 44,397 stock units, Jamaica Producers climbed 49 cents and finished trading 8,514 units at $16.99, Jamaica Stock Exchange closed at $6.85, with 51,818 shares. JMMB Group gained 48 cents and ended at $26.98, with 77,600 shares, Kingston Properties spiked $1.39 to conclude trading at $6.64, with just 840 shares, Kingston Wharves finished with a fall of $1.45 to $48.05, trading 100,791 stock units, Mayberry Investments settled at $6.02, with 82,641 units changing hands. NCB Financial Group ended trading with a rise of $2 to $97, with 92,006 shares, with investors responding positively to the six months results. Portland JSX jumped $1.89 and ended at $10.40, with 82,924 units after the company posted a profit for 2018. 
Pulse Investments concluded trading at $1.79, with 1,085 shares, Sagicor Group settled at $37.60, with a rise of 10 cents after 4,907,816 shares traded and Sagicor Real Estate Fund settled at $15, with 20,000 shares. Scotia Group lost 50 cents to trade at $50, with 202,000 units, Seprod fell 77 cents and finished trading at $34.23, with 58,738 shares, Supreme Ventures lost 18 cents and ended at $11.57, with 297,625 shares, Victoria Mutual Investments concluded trading at $4.20, after losing 10 cents with 227,874 stock units and Wisynco Group finished at $10.69, up 19 cents with 8,307,655 units changing hands. In the main market preference segment, JMMB Group 7.5% finished at 99 cents, with 10,590 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “JSE main market climbs on Friday.”
