Stocks Round Up | JSE closes week on winning note

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed the week Friday, on a winning note.

The moderate trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 46/40.

The JSE Combined advanced by 1,420.45 points or 0.43 per cent, to close at 328,954.78.

The JSE Main Market advanced by 1,433.99 points or 0.46 per cent, to close at 314,999.24; while the Junior Market Index advanced by 8.65 points or 0.23 per cent, to close at 3,828.75. The JSE USD Equities Index advanced by declined by 4.00 points or 1.76 per cent, to close at 223.47.

Overall market activity

• 104 stocks traded
• 46 advanced
• 40 declined
• 18 traded firm

Winners

• KLE Group, up 31.82 per cent closing at $1.45
• AS Bryden, up 31.33 per cent to close at $29.55.
• JPS 7%, up 15.13 per cent to close at $48.54
• MPC Caribbean Clean Energy, up 15.00 per cent to close at $93.00.
• ISP Financial, up 10.00 per cent to close at $30.80

Losers

• Sygnus Real Estate Finance USD, down 27.70 per cent to close at US$0.072.
• Palace Amusement, down 8.33 per cent to close at $1.21
• Kingston Wharves, down 8.30 per cent closing at $26.50.
• Salada, down 7.87 per cent to close at $2.81
• Everything Fresh, down 7.69 per cent to close at $1.56

Market volume

13.12 million units valued at over $118.38 million.

Volume leaders were: Wigton, followed by Kingston Wharves and Transjamaican.