Stocks Round Up | Jetcon, First Rock the biggest winners today
Published:Wednesday | November 8, 2023 | 7:11 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed Wednesday, again on a winning note.
The moderate trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 35/52.
The JSE Combined advanced by 1,728.93 points or 0.53 per cent to close at 327,861.17.
The JSE Main Market advanced by 2,220.52 points or 0.71 per cent to close at 314,087.19; while the Junior Market Index declined by 39.04 points or 1.02 per cent to close at 3,802.02.
The JSE USD Equities Index advanced by 4.69 points or 2.02 per cent to close at 227.16.
Overall market activity
- 110 stocks traded
- 35 advanced
- 52 declined
- 23 traded firm
Winners
- Jetcon, up 17.50 per cent to close at $0.94.
- First Rock, up 17.07 per cent to close at $8.78
- ISP Finance, up 14.97 per cent to close at $30.79.
- AMG Packaging up 11.16 per cent to close at $2.49
- Knutsford Express, up 9.04 per cent to close at $12.30
Losers
- KLE, down 26.17 per cent to close at $1.10.
- MPC Caribbean Clean Energy, down 23.27 per cent to close at $73.51
- CAB, down 18.12 per cent closing at $2.53
- JPS 7.00%, down 14.22 per cent closing at $42.03.
- Purity, down 12.71per cent to close at $2.06
Market volume
17.80 million units valued at over $70.15 million.
Volume leaders were: Transjamaican, followed by Carreras and Wigton.
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