Stocks Round Up | JSE ends week on winning note
Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 4:53 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index ended on a winning note on Friday.
The busy trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 48/41
The JSE Combined Index advanced by 358.02 points or 0.10 per cent, to close at 349,229.71.
The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 227.19 points or 0.07 per cent, to close at 336,065.38 , while the Junior Market Index advanced by 15.76 points or 0.41 per cent, to close at 3,892.56.
The JSE USD Equities advanced by 1.39 points or 0.60 per cent, to close at 232.50.
Overall market activity
- 111 stocks traded
- 48 advanced
- 41 declined
- 22 traded firm.
Winners
- ISP Finance, up 25.48 per cent to close at $26.35
- JPSCo 7%, up 20.14 per cent to close at $43.85
- Cargo Handlers, up 13.57 per cent to close at $14.98
- Purity, up 10.50 per cent to close at $2.42
- Paramount Trading, up 9.30 per cent to close at $2.35
Losers
- Palace Amusement, down 30.15 per cent to close at $4.68
- MPC Caribbean Clean Energy, down 18.55 per cent closing at $79.00
- Caribbean Flavours, down 14.12 per cent to close at $1.46
- Indies Pharma, down 9.18 per cent to close at $2.77
- Salada Foods, down 7.81 per cent closing at $3.54
Market volume
19.9 million units valued at over $161 million.
Volume leaders were: Derrimon followed by Jamaica Broilers and Dolla Financial.
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