Stocks Round Up | Market slips marginally on Wednesday
Published:Wednesday | October 18, 2023 | 3:08 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index marginally lost ground on Wednesday.
The busy trading on small volumes, ended with an advance/decline ratio of 45/39.
The JSE Combined Index declined by 2,479.44 points or 0.75 per cent, to close at 327,190.17.
The JSE Main Market Index declined by 2,782.98 points or 0.88 per cent, to close at 312,443.39; while the Junior Market Index advanced by 13.95 points or 0.36 per cent, to close at 3,899.07.
The JSE USD Equities declined by 1.50 points or 0.64 per cent, to close at 231.48.
Overall market activity
- 127 stocks traded
- 45 advanced
- 39 declined
- 43 traded firm
Winners
- Sterling Inv (US), up 26.67 per cent to close at US$0.02
- CAB, up 24.22 per cent to close at $3.18
- PBS 9,75% Cumul Redeem Prefs, up 19.57per cent to close at $120.18
- Edufocal, up 19.44 per cent to close at $1.72
- JPSCo 7%, up 15.55 per cent to close at $48.53
Losers
- Genac Ins, down 13.95 per cent to close at $5.06
- JSE, down 12.98 per cent closing at $8.11
- Ciboney, down 8.70 per cent closing at $1.26
- Indies Pharma, down 8.62 per cent to close at $2.65
- Proven, down 8.14 per cent to close at $22.11
Market volume
12.54 million units valued at over $44.10 million.
Volume leaders were: Dolla Financial, followed by Edufocal and Transjamaican
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