Stocks Round Up | 114 stocks traded today
Published:Tuesday | February 28, 2023 | 4:10 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index reversed some of its recent losses on Tuesday.
The busy trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 39/43.
The JSE Combined Index advanced by 3,913.59 points or 1.14 per cent to close at 347,390.54.
The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 3,927.57 points or 1.19 per cent to close at 334,642.23, while the Junior Market Index advanced by 27.43 points or 0.72 per cent to close at 3,837.30.
The JSE USD Equities declined by 17.34 points or 7.00 per cent to close at 230.45.
Overall market activity
114 stocks traded
55 advanced
42 declined
17 traded firm.
Winners
Jamaica Public Service Co 7% up 32.27 per cent to close at $22.83
Palace amusement up 30.30 per cent to close at $7.74
Knutsford Express up 15.24 per cent to close at $11.87
MPC Carib Clean Energy up 14.69 per cent to close at $79.15.
Purity up 10.00 per cent to close at $2.42
Losers
AMG Packaging down 13.21per cent to close at $2.30
Margaritaville (Turks) down 14.99 per cent to close at $ 16.44
PBS down 14.09 per cent closing at $1.89
CAC 2000 9.5% Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares down 8.93 per cent closing at $1.02
Sagicor Select Manufacturing & Distribution down 8.16 per cent to close at $0.45
Market volume
Some 31.46 million units valued at over $134.7 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were Wigton followed by JFP and Trans Jamaican.
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