The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index again lost ground on Friday.

The moderate trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 59/35.

The JSE Combined Index declined by 7,270.85 points or 2.18 per cent to close at 341,388.96.

The JSE Main Market Index declined by 6,694.66 points or 2.09 per cent to close at 327,042.43, while the Junior Market Index advanced by 112.67 points or 2.93 per cent to close at 3,959.34.

The JSE USD Equities advanced by 3.81 points or 1.48 per cent to close at 253.83.

Overall market activity

108 stocks traded
63advanced
32 declined
13 traded firm

Winners

JMMB 7.00% VR CR Preference Shares up 21.81 per cent to close at $2.29
FosRich up 18.10 per cent to close at $2.74
Derrimon Trading up 15.43 per cent to close at $2.02
Paramount Trading up 15.03 per cent to close at $1.99
JPSCo 7.00% up 15.02 per cent to close at $48.41

Losers

First Rock Real Estate Investments (USD) down 18.33 per cent to close at US$0.045
Mayberry Investments down 12.25 per cent closing at $7.02
JSE down 7.50 per cent closing at $9.25
JMMB Group 7.15% Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares down 7.12 per cent to close at $2.87
Main Event Entertainment down 6.77 per cent to close at $13.22

Market volume

Some 44.15 million units valued at over $256.86 million were traded today.

Volume leaders were Stanley Motta followed by FESCO and Transjamaican.

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