Stocks Round Up | Palace Amusement today’s top advancer, MPC Caribbean (US$) leads decliners | Business

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index advanced on Friday with an advance/decline ratio of 38/34.

The index moved up by 196.98 points or 0.05 per cent to close at 410,836.87.

The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 152.88 points or 0.04 per cent to close at 408,461.62, while the Junior Market Index advanced by 5.56 points or 0.17 per cent to close at 3,255.08.

The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 4.59 points or 2.45 per cent to close at 183.04.

Overall market activity

84 stocks traded
38 advanced
34 declined
12 traded firm

Winners

Palace Amusement up 9.93 per cent to close at $1,033.33
Ciboney Group up 9.76 per cent to close at $0.45
JMMB Group (7.25% VR Preference Share) up 7.14 per cent to close at $1.50
First Rock up 6.83 per cent to close at $12.99
Sagicor Select Funds – M&D up 6.49 per cent to close at $0.82

Losers

MPC Caribbean (US$) down 13.33 per cent to close at $1.04
TransJamaican Highway (US$) down 8.89 per cent to close at $0.01
Main Event down 7.33 per cent to close at $3.79
Kremi down 7.29 per cent to close at $6.10
Berger Paint down 6.91 per cent to close at $12.79

Market volume

Some 19.071 million units valued at over $147.107 million were traded today.

Volume leaders were Pulse Investments followed by TransJamaican Highway and Lumber Depot.

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