Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 17 se­cu­ri­ties of which four ad­vanced, four de­clined and nine trad­ed firm. Trad­ing ac­tiv­i­ty on the first tier mar­ket reg­is­tered a vol­ume of 242,567 shares cross­ing the floor of the Ex­change val­ued at $4,817,881.08.

The Com­pos­ite In­dex de­clined by 0.19 points, or by 0.02 per cent, to close at 1,067.20. The All T&T In­dex de­clined by 1.98 points, or 0.12 per cent, to close at 1,656.42. The Cross List­ed In­dex ad­vanced by 0.18 points, 0.29 per cent, to close at 61.27. Ja­maica Mon­ey Mar­ket Bro­kers was the vol­ume leader with 95,000 shares chang­ing hands for a val­ue of $58,900, fol­lowed by Guardian Hold­ings Ltd with a vol­ume of 51,650 shares be­ing trad­ed for $973,602.50.

Sco­tia­bank T&T con­tributed 38,483 shares with a val­ue of $2,428,166.98, while Na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Bank Ja­maica added 17,116 shares val­ued at $27,385.60. GraceKennedy Ltd en­joyed the day's largest gain, in­creas­ing $0.23 to end the day at $3.99. Con­verse­ly, Readymix (West In­dies) Ltd suf­fered the day's great­est loss, falling $4.00 to close at $22.65.