Stocks Round Up | Iron Rock today's top advancer, Caribbean Assurance leads decliners
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed on Tuesday, marginally regaining lost ground.
The moderate trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 40/48.
The JSE Combined Index advanced by 1,862.81 points or 0.50 per cent to close at 373,744.51
The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 1,661.36 points or 0.46 per cent to close at 359,413.08, while the Junior Market advanced by 34.28 points or 0.82 per cent to close at 4,191.08.
The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 1.83 points, or 0.88 per cent to close at 205.69.
Overall market activity
106 stocks traded
43 advanced
50 declined
13 traded firm
Winners
Iron Rock up 22.76 per cent to close at $3.02
Cargo Handlers up 14.96 per cent to close at $14.60
Sagicor Select Manufacturing and Distribution Fund up 10.71 per cent to close at $0.62
Pulse Investments up 10.48 per cent to close at $3.90
Main Event up 9.96 per cent to close at $6.07
Losers
CAB down 16.18 per cent to close at $2.28.
JPS 9.5% down 14.40per cent to close at $2,653.75
CAC 2000 Ltd down 13.00per cent closing at $6.96
Knutsford Express down 12.41 per cent closing at $6.35
Sygnus Credit Investments USD, down 8.38 per cent to close at US$0.12
Market volume
Some 26 million units valued at over $144.36 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were Wigton, followed by Pulse and then One On One Educational.
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