Transjamaican Highway continues to dominate trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange with 38 percent of the volume of stocks exchanged on Thursday, with a 78 percent surge in value from Wednesday, resulting in major indices of the Main Market ending with mildly mixed results, as the Junior Market index surged and the JSE USD Market fell. At the end of trading, the prices of 43 stocks rose, 33 declined and 27 remained firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index popped 72.51 points to end at 329,249.77, with the All Jamaican Composite Index declining by 2,108.34 points to conclude trading at 367,032.35, the JSE Main Index dipped 606.47 points to 318,729.03, the Junior Market Index rose 91.99 points to 3,415.15 and the JSE USD Market Index skidded 1.95 points to settle at 203.61.
At the close of trading, 58,012,814 shares were exchanged in all three markets, up from 15,266,692 units on Wednesday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $240.92 million, up from $135.28 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 59,756 shares for US$12,538, up from 50,243 units at US$4,303 on Wednesday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led with 22.29 million shares, followed by Sagicor Select Financial Fund with 7.91 million stocks and Radio Jamaica with 1.70 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Indies Pharma led with 8.12 million shares, followed by Derrimon Trading with 2.19 million stocks and Fosrich with 2.0 million units.
In the preference segment, Jamaica Public Service 7% dropped $6.30 to end at $36, Jamaica Public Service 9.5% rallied $299 to $2,599 and Productive Business Solutions 10.5% rose $137.90 and ended at $1,140.
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