Caribbean Flavours lead trading on Tuesday with 47.7 percent of total volume, on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, with investors snapping up 7.4 million shares, followed by Derrimon Trading with 32 percent of the day’s trade with 4.97 million units.
Caribbean Flavours a Derrimon’s subsidiary
Rounding out the top three was Jamaican Teas with 5.7 percent market share with an exchange of 885,180 units.
The market declined with falling stocks just outnumbering rising ones after an exchange of 281 percent more shares, with a value that was 193 percent greater than on Monday.
Trading ended with 34 securities, down from 36 on Monday and closed with 13 rising, 14 declining and seven remaining unchanged.
At the close, the Junior Market Index lost 16.72 points to 2,745.01. The average PE Ratio ended at 14 based on ICInsider.com’s forecast of 2020-21 earnings.
The market closed with trading of 15,516,613 shares for $36,243,327 up from 4,077,181 units at $12,358,168 on Monday.
Trading averaged 456,371 units at $1,065,980 in contrast to 113,255 at $343,282 on Monday. The month to date, averaged 279,911 units at $694,307. January closed with an average of 232,651 units at $569,885.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows four stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and three with lower offers.
At the close of trading, Access Financial shed $1 to close at $21 with an exchange of 2,365 shares, Blue Power dropped 32 cents to $2.83 with 43,761 units changing hands, CAC 2000 fell 60 cents to $10 trading 6,800 stocks. Cargo Handlers lost $1.40 to finish at $6.60 with 95 stock units traded, Caribbean Cream declined by 6 cents to end at $5.04 with 111 units passing through the market. Caribbean Flavours exchanged 7,400,315 stock units and gained 6 cents to close at $2.04, Honey Bun dropped 14 cents to $5.85 with 17,090 stocks changing hands, Indies Pharma advanced 23 cents to $2.80 with 218,306 units traded. Knutsford Express dropped 40 cents to $6.30 after exchanging 4,888 stocks, Lasco Distributors climbed 19 cents to $3.39 with 38,609 units changing hands. 
Lasco Manufacturing gained 4 cents to end at $3.71 with 174,629 shares traded, Limners and Bards advanced 15 cents to $2.72 with a transfer of 46,156 stocks. Stationery and Office Supplies dropped 26 cents to $4.28 with 7,402 shares changing hands and tTech shed 45 cents to close at $4.40 with 14,623 stock units crossing the exchange.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
