Stocks Round Up | 30 stocks advance, 32 decline and 8 traded firm

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index advanced on Wednesday.

It advanced by 3,055.82 points or 0.63 per cent to close at 490,447.12.

The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 3,479.77 points or 0.71 per cent to close at 496,795.98, while the Junior Market Index declined by 12.88 points or 0.41 per cent to close at 3,098.16. The JSE USD Equities Index advanced by 7.18 points or 3.12 per cent to close at 237.68.

Overall market activity

70 stocks traded
30 advanced
32 declined
8 traded firm

Winners 

GraceKennedy Limited up 11.73 per cent to close at $74.6.
Ciboney Group Limited up 9.09 per cent to close at $0.12.
Medical Disposables & Supplies up 6.51 per cent to close at $7.20.
Proven Investments (USD) up 6.42 per cent, closing at $0.33.
Mailpac Group up 5.10 per cent closing at $2.06.

Losers 

Productive Business Solutions (9.75%) down 15.00 per cent to close at $85.00
Dolphin Cove down 13.70 per cent to close at $9.32
Victoria Mutual Investments down 10.50 per cent to close at $11.00
KLE Group down 9.80 per cent to close at $2.30
MPC Caribbean down 9.57 per cent to close at $208.00

Market volume

33.567 million units valued at over $321.818 million.

Volume leaders were Sagicor Select Funds Limited – Financial followed by Sagicor Select Funds Limited – Manufacturing and Distribution and JMMB Group Limited.

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