Activity on the Junior Market returned to the more familiar trend recently of moderate trading and closed with just 7 securities trading and ending with 519,491 units changing hands valued at $948,548. The JSE Junior Market Index rose 8.04 points to close at 723.55, with the price of 5 stocks advancing and none declining.
At the close of the market, there were 3 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 stock with a lower offer. The junior market ended with 5 securities closing with no bids to buy and 10 securities that had no stocks being offered for sale.
Stocks trading in the junior market are, Caribbean Producers trading 69,950 units, moving up by 15 cents to $2.30, General Accident was up 2 cents to $1.72 while trading 289,200 shares but traded as high as $1.80 earlier in the day. Lasco Distributors trading shares closed at $1.37, 2 cents higher than on the previous day, Lasco Financial Services ended trading with 117,944 units at $1.09 to gain 1 cent, Lasco Manufacturing traded just 8,771 units at $1.15, Medical Disposables trading just 245 shares at $1.80, up 4 cents and Paramount Trading with 23,496 closed at $3.60.
5 junior stocks rose none fell
April 2, 2015 by
