Stocks Round Up | Iron Rock, Jetcon and 138 Student Living today's top advancers
Published:Friday | May 21, 2021 | 4:36 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed Friday regaining lost ground.
The heavy trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 41/39.
The JSE Combined Index advanced by 2,538.81 points or 0.60 per cent to close at 426,614.24.
The JSE Main Market Index was up 2,716.72 points or 0.64 per cent to close at 424,560.18 while the Junior Market Index advanced 2.79 points or 0.08 per cent to close at 3,341.14
The JSE USD Equities Index advanced 3.01 points or 1.44 per cent, closing at 211.68.
Overall market activity
93 stocks traded
41 advanced
39 declined
13 traded firm
Winners
Iron Rock Insurance up 14.49 per cent to close at $3.95
Jetcon up 14.44 per cent to close at $1.03
138 Student Living up 10.00 per cent to close at $5.39
Express Catering up 9.56 per cent to close at $5.50
Access Financial up 8.42 per cent to close at $21.88
Losers
Everything Fresh down 8.93 per cent to close at $1.02
Cargo Handlers down 7.94 per cent closing at $8.00
KLE Group down 7.27 per cent closing at $1.02
Sygnus Credit Investments (USD) down 7.21 per cent to close at US$0.15
Kingston Properties down 6.54 per cent to close at $7.58
Market volume
Some 46.8 million units valued at over $508.5 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were FESCO, followed by JMMB Group 7.25% VR JMD CR Preference Shares and Sagicor Group.
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