Trading plunges on the Jamaica Stock Exchange

The Jamaica Stock Exchange ended trading on Wednesday, following a sharp decline in the value of stocks and volume of stocks trading compared to Tuesday and ended with mixed movements in the market indices.
The JSE Combined Market Index dived 3,687.32 points to 348,572.04, but the All Jamaican Composite Index rose 1,468.88 points to end at 375,012.05, the JSE Main Index climbed 2,312.81 points to end at 336,939.12 as the Junior Market Index lost 17.40 points to close at 3,734.42 and the JSE USD Market Index rose 0.01 points to 225.31.
Shares in the preference segment of the Main Market that are not included in the TOP10 graphs ended with Jamaica Public Service 7% dived $18.48 to end at $90.52 and Productive Business Solutions 9.75% preference share rose $9 to close at $104.
At the close, investors exchanged 12,307,693 shares in all three markets, down from 33,239,260 units on Tuesday, with the value of stocks trading amounting to $59.37 million compared with $381.26 million on Tuesday. Trading on the JSE USD market resulted in investors exchanging 1,042,369 shares for US$14,647 up from 41,840 units at US$1,885 on Tuesday.
The market’s PE ratio ended at 18.6 on 2022-23 earnings and 12.4 times those for 2023-24 at the close of trading.
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