The Junior Market closed with a loss of 22.10 points to 3066.67 on Monday and resulting in a wipeout 16 percent of its value since August 2019 when it hit an all-time high of 3,662.94 on August 14, last year and down 8.4 percent since the start of 2010.
The decline left the market price-earnings ratio at 13.1 based on 2019 earnings.
The market settled with 30 securities changing hands, resulting in the prices of 9 securities advanced, 14 declined and 7 remained unchanged. Market activity, ended with an exchange of 2,894,161 units valued at $6,925,513 compared to 2,050,342 units valued at $12,142,583 from 38 companies on Friday.
Trading ended with an average of 96,472 units for an average of $230,850 in contrast to 53,956 units for an average of $319,542 on Friday. January closed with an average of 137,619 units valued at $521,935 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows five stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and three with lower offers.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging gained 12 cents to settle at $2.05, trading 6,424 stock units, Blue Power ended the day, 20 cents higher at $4 with 3,877 stock units crossing the exchange, Caribbean Producers climbed 1 cent, swapping 600 shares at $4.81. Dolphin Cove lost 20 cents in trading of 2,393 stock units at $9.80, Elite Diagnostic finished 45 cents higher at $4.45 with 42,851 stock units trading, Express Catering exchanged 7,722 units and gained 5 cents to end at $6. Fontana slipped 1 cent to close at $6.79 with 44,009 stock units changing hands, GWest Corporation ended with a loss of 1 cent at $1.02 in the trading of 30,000 stock units, Honey Bun declined 2 cents, in transferring 33,321 shares to close at $6.98. iCreate dropped 3 cents to settle at 72 cents in exchanging 506,791 stock units, Indies Pharma ended market activity exchanging 57,828 shares to close at $2.91 after falling 4 cents, Jamaican Teas lost 19 cents in trading of 159,866 shares at $6.50. Knutsford Express fell 62 cents with 424 stock units changing hands at $10.88, Lasco Distributors fell 8 cents in exchanging 83,905 units at $3.02, Lasco Financial closed trading of 10,000 units and gained 5 cents to end at $3.65. 
Lasco Manufacturing declined by 6 cents after 26,806 stock units crossed the exchange at $3.96, Lumber Depot lost 2 cents to settle at $1.51 with a transfer of 519,559 shares, MailPac Group fell 8 cents in trading of 753,122 units at $2. Main Event gained 30 cents and exchanged 22,578 shares at $6.10, Medical Disposables climbed $1 to end at $7.50 with 85,429 shares trading, SSL Venture declined 6 cents in trading 40,000 stock units at $1.02. Stationery and Office Supplies ended with 1,728 shares crossing the exchange, after rising 19 cents to end at $9.99 and tTech closed down 10 cents to $5.50 with 1,532 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
