Stocks Round Up | MPC Caribbean, IronRock and SOS today's top performers
Published:Thursday | August 17, 2023 | 4:09 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index marginally lost ground on Thursday.
The slow trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 39/51.
The JSE Combined Index declined by 522.55 points or 0.16 per cent to close at 334,647.92.
The JSE Main Market declined by 457.71 points or 0.14 per cent to close at 320,755.70; while the Junior Market Index declined by 10.43 points or 0.27 per cent to close at 3,862.94.
The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 6.47 points or 2.66 per cent to close at 236.58.
Overall market activity
104 stocks traded
39 advanced
51 declined
14 traded firm
Winners
MPC Caribbean up 17.69 per cent to close at $ 81.98
IronRock Insurance up 13.81 per cent to close at $ 2.39
SOS Stationery up 10.33 per cent to close at $ 2.03
Blue Power up 10.00 per cent to close at $ 2.20
LAB up 9.39 per cent to close at $ 1.98
Losers
Purity down 15.07 per cent closing at $2.31
JPSCo 7% down 15.00 per cent to close at $55.25
MPC Caribbean USD down 12.42 per cent closing at US$0.55
JMMB 7.25% down 10.75 per cent to close at $1.66
Eppley 7.5 down 10.00 per cent to close at $5.40
Market volume
Some 9.64 million units valued at over $47.90 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were Transjamaican Highway followed by One on One Educational and FESCO.
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