Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended trading on Friday with 26 securities changing hands, compared with 25 securities trading on Thursday and ending with the prices of 6 securities advancing, 13 declining and 6 remaining unchanged.
At the close of market activities, 3,598,159 units valued at $16,062,044 changed hands, compared to 10,156,220 units valued at $31,853,419 on Thursday. Trading ended with an average of 138,391 units for an average of $617,771 in contrast to 406,249 units for an average of $1,274,137 on Thursday. In contrast, February closed with average of 235,225 units valued at $679,790 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
At the close of the trading, Access Financial closed $3 higher to $53, with 6,150 shares trading, AMG Packaging closed 9 cents higher at $2.49, with 18,125 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading of 21,298 units at $4.93, CAC 2000 finished trading with a loss of 10 cents at $12.40, with an exchange of 2,500 shares. Caribbean Flavours lost $1.51, exchanging 44,483 stock units, at $18.49, Caribbean Producers finished trading 15,692 units at $4.60, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 10 cents at $2.60, trading 277,652 shares, Everything Fresh finished with a loss of 15 cents at $1.50, with an exchange of 79,794 stock units. Elite Diagnostic settled at $3.20, with an exchange of 35,968 units, Express Catering ended trading of 583,562 shares, with a loss of 39 cents at $7.46, FosRich Group traded 66,355 shares to close at $4, Fontana finished trading with a loss of 2 cents at $3.96, with 164,513 shares changing hands. General Accident closed at $4.50, with 561,039 exchanging stock units, Honey Bun concluded trading 1,143,609 shares 1 cent higher at $3.81, ICreate swapped 275,417 and lost 2 cents to close at all-time low of $1. Indies Pharma finished 14 
cents higher at $3.14, trading 36,886 shares, Iron Rock settled at $3.50, with an exchange of 27,500 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 58,475 units with a loss of 26 cents to end at $4.24. Jetcon Corporation finished trading 3,768 shares and rose 20 cents to $3.30, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 1 cent at $3.79, with 28,381 units changing hands, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 20 cents at $4.40, with 4,261 shares crossing the trading platform. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 54,369 shares, with a loss of 1 cent to close at $3.24, Main Event traded 3,080 shares with a loss of 10 cents to end at $5.40, Medical Disposables finished with a loss of 20 cents at $6.60, trading 8,700 stock units and tTech settled 70 cents higher at $6.20, with just 200 stock units trading. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading preference share ended at $2.10, with 76,382 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
