Stocks Round Up | Ciboney, Palace Amusement and TransJamaican Highway USD lead advancers

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index continued its rally on Thursday, further reversing this week’s losses.

The slow, truncated trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 39/22

The JSE Combined Index advanced by 2,623.50 points or 0.66 per cent to close at 397,812.53

The JSE Main Market Index was up 2,694.71points or 0.68 per cent to close at 397,354.26 while the Junior Market Index advanced 13.54 points or 0.45 per cent to close at 2,996.49

The JSE USD Equities Index advanced 5.87 points or 2.87 per cent, closing at 210.27

Overall market activity

77 stocks traded
39 advanced
22 declined
16 traded firm

Winners

Ciboney up 13.46 per cent to close at $0.59
Palace Amusement up 13.28 per cent to close at $730.46
TransJamaican Highway (USD),up 9.30 per cent to close at US0.01
Jamaica Producers up 8.54 per cent to close at $22.50
Lasco Financial Services, up 7.81 per cent to close at $4.54

Losers

Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC down 13.25 per cent to close at $40.38
Stationery and Office Supplies down 13.09 per cent to close at $4.78
Salada down 7.96 per cent to close at $6.13
Caribbean Assurance Brokers, down 5.00 per cent closing at $1.90
Blue Power Group, down 4.28 per cent closing at $3.58

Market volume

Some 14.61 million units valued at over $49 million.

Volume leaders were TransJamaican Highway, followed by MailPac and Wigton.

Follow The Gleaner on Twitter and Instagram @JamaicaGleaner and on Facebook @GleanerJamaica. Send us a message on WhatsApp at 1-876-499-0169 or email us at onlinefeedback@gleanerjm.com or editors@gleanerjm.com.