Stocks Round Up | MPC Caribbean today's top winner, IronRock leads decliners
Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2021 | 4:29 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index declined on Wednesday with an advance/decline ratio of 36/43.
The index moved down by 905.18 points or 0.22 per cent to close at 417,938.06.
The JSE Main Market Index declined by 308.45 points or 0.07 per cent to close at 415,752.74, while the Junior Market Index declined by 62.30 points or 1.86 per cent to close at 3,289.82.
The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 1.64 points or 0.86 per cent to close at 189.15.
Overall market activity
91 stocks traded
36 advanced
43 declined
12 traded firm
Winners
MPC Caribbean up 13.88 per cent to close at $137.80
JMMB (7.5%) up 9.89 per cent to close at $1.00
FESCO up 8.79 per cent to close at $1.98
1834 Investments up 7.53 per cent to close at $1.00
Jamaica Producers up 6.58 per cent to close at $23.49
Losers
IronRock down 23.27 per cent to close at $3.10
Paramount Trading down 17.60 per cent to close at $1.03
SSL Venture down 14.86 per cent to close at $0.63
Express Catering down 11.02 per cent to close at $1.22
Margaritaville (Turks) down 10.99 per cent to close at $13.52
Market volume
Some 16.750 million units valued at over $114.623 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were FESCO followed by Radio Jamaica and Wigton Windfarm.
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