The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index advanced on Wednesday with an advance/decline ratio of 48/41.

The index moved up by 1,477.39 points or 0.37 per cent to close at 396,901.64 points.

The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 1,324.62 points or 0.35 per cent to close at 383,033.41 points while the Junior Market Index advanced by 26.55 points or 0.62 per cent to close at 4,310.53 points.

The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 1.14 points or 0.52 per cent to close at 217.56 points.

Overall market activity

103 stocks traded
48 advanced
41 declined
14 traded firm

Winners

ICreate Limited up 17.86 per cent to close at $4.62
KLE Group up 11.76 per cent to close at $2.28
AMG Packaging up 9.79 per cent to close at $4.71
Ciboney Group up 8.89 per cent to close at $0.95
Portland JSX up 7.85 per cent to close at $11.95

Losers

138 SL down 19.85 per cent to close at $17.64
GWest Corp down 14.41 per cent to close at $1.01
Indies Pharma down 10.33 per cent to close at $2.95
SSL Ventures down 12.86 per cent to close at $2.71
Kremi down 7.55 per cent to close at $4.53

Market volume

Some 27.036 million units valued at over $339.172 million were traded today.

Volume leaders were Wigton Windfarm followed by Dolla Financial and ICreate Limited.

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