Stocks Round Up | Sterling Investments (USD), MPC Caribbean and Caribbean Flavours today's top performers
Published:Wednesday | May 3, 2023 | 5:53 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index was back to winning ways on Wednesday.
Brisk trading on small volumes ended with an advance/decline ratio of 53/46.
The JSE Combined Index advanced by 1,998.79 points or 0.58 per cent to close at 348,572.04.
The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 2,312.81 points or 0.69 per cent to close at 336,939.12 while the Junior Market Index declined by 17.40 points or 0.46 per cent to close at 3,734.42.
The JSE USD Equities Index closed at 225.30.
Overall market activity
115 stocks traded
53 advanced
46 declined
16 traded firm
Winners
Sterling Investments (USD) up 18.01 per cent to close at US$0.02
MPC Caribbean Clean Energy up 14.19 per cent to close at $82.49
Caribbean Flavours & Fragrances up 13.64 per cent to close at $1.25
Stanley Motta up 13.04 per cent to close at $5.72
Purity up 10.65 per cent to close at $2.39
Losers
MDS down 16.50per cent to close at $5.01
JMMB 7.50% down 15.86 per cent closing at $1.22
JPSCo 7% down 15.24 per cent to close at $90.26.
ISP Finance down 12.67per cent closing at $19.65
Everything Fresh down 11.31 per cent to close at $1.49
Market volume
Some 11.26 million units valued at over $59.41 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were Wigton, followed by Image Plus and Transjamaican.
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