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Stocks Round Up | 43 stocks advance, 28 decline and 9 trade firm

Published:Friday | April 3, 2020 | 4:12 PM

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index advanced on Friday with an advance/decline ratio of 43/28.

The index moved up by 4,164.83 points or 1.11 per cent to close at 380,787.88.

The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 4,394.76 points or 1.16per cent to close at 384,905.24 while the Junior Market Index advanced by 11.40 points or 0.46 per cent to close at 2,474.60.

The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 1.47 points or 0.70 per cent to close at 207.23.

Overall market activity

80 stocks traded
43 advanced
28 declined
9 traded firm

Winners 

Ciboney Group up 37.50 per cent to close at $0.11
Key Insurance up 30.43 per cent to close at $3.00
SSL Ventures up 16.47 per cent to close at $0.99
Select Funds (Manufacturing), up 16.22 per cent to close at $0.86
Jamaica Producers up 13.88 per cent to close at $21.42

Losers 

MailPac down 11.89 per cent to close at $1.63
Berger down 9.89 per cent to close at $12.67
Sygnus Credit ($US) down 8.87 per cent to close at $0.15
Portland JSX down 8.13 per cent to close at $7.35
Sygnus Credit ($J) down 7.63 per cent to close at $17.19


Market volume

58.853 million units valued at over $269.841 million.

Volume leaders were MailPac Group Limited followed by Transjamaican Highway and Wigton Windfarm.

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