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Stocks Round Up | Main Event today's top advancer, Access Financial leads decliners

Published:Thursday | April 15, 2021 | 4:23 PM

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed Thursday continuing its winning streak advancing marginally.

After a heavy trading session, the advance/decline ratio was 45/28.

The JSE Combined Index advanced by 617.86 points or 0.16 per cent to close at 397,909.81.

The JSE Main Market Index was up 322.43 points or 0.08 per cent to close at 397,006.85 while the Junior Market Index advanced 29.38 points or 0.98 per cent to close at 3,034.52

The JSE USD Equities Index declined 2.77 points or 1.33 per cent, closing at 205.51.

Overall market activity

89 stocks traded
45 advanced
28 declined
16 traded firm

Winners

Main Event up 35.82 per cent to close at $4.74
KLE Group up 18.64 per cent to close at $1.40
Everything Fresh up 11.11 per cent to close at $1.00
Express Catering up 10.07 per cent to close at $4.48
Sygnus Credit Investments USD up 5.85 per cent to close at $0.15

Losers

Access Financial down 13.07 per cent to close at $19.55
Sterling Investment USD down 10.48 per cent closing at US$0.02
Sagicor Real Estate X Fund down 9.54 per cent to close at $ 7.49
Palace Amusement down 7.91 per cent to close at $736.08
TransJamaican (USD) down 7.61 per cent closing at US$0.01

Market volume

Some 18 million units valued at over $261.3 million were traded.

Volume leaders were Jamaica Producers, followed by Transjamaican and Wigton.

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