Scotia Group climbed to a new 52 weeks’ closing high on Tuesday
Trading closed Tuesday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange with a rise in the volume of stocks exchanged, carrying a greater value than on Monday and resulting in the Main Market major indices falling, the Junior Market index ending with gains and the JSE USD Market slipping modestly, with the market closing with prices of 44 shares rising, 35 declining and 30 remaining firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index sank 1,340.70 points to end at 343,920.04, the All Jamaican Composite Index dropped 2,435.47 points to 382,822.48, the JSE Main Index declined 1,534.48 points to wrap up trading at 331,958.77, the Junior Market Index advanced 17.67 points to finish at 3,692.13 and the JSE USD Market Index dropped 0.96 points to 238.48.
The market closed with 13,915,261 shares traded in all three markets, up from 10,906,252 stock units on Monday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and the Main markets amounting to $261.56 million, up from $54.8 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with 325,340 shares being exchanged for US$10,946 versus 20,668 units at US$13,498 on Monday.
In Main Market, Transjamaican Highway led trading with 2.87 million shares followed by GraceKennedy with 2.82 million stocks and Wigton Energy with 1.42 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Lasco Financial led with 2.37 million shares followed by Image Plus with 311,884 stocks and Limners and Bards with 209,758 units.
In the preference segment, 138 Student Living preference share sank $43 to finish at $239 and Productive Business Solutions 10.5% preferred share dropped $13.99 and ended at $1,100.
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