Fontana Waterloo Road – the company’s stock traded 7.3m units.
This year’s new listing, Fontana continues to trade in large amounts with 7.34 million units trading and contributing to 83 percent of the day’s volume trading when the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed on Thursday.
Trading ended another day of high volume with an exchange of 8,871,009 units valued at $29,431,464 compared to 3,592,672 units valued at $12,085,054 on Wednesday from trading in 22 securities.
Trading activity pushed the Junior Market Index up by 12.37 points to 3,215.17 with 30 securities trading with the prices of 7 rising, 14 declining and 9 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 295,700 units for an average of $981,049 in contrast to 163,303 units for an average of $549,321 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 659,569 units valued at $2,710,697 and previously 703,409 units valued at $2,919,088. In contrast, December ended with an average of 136,222 units at a value of $737,367 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and just 1 closing with a lower offer.
At the close of the day’s activities, AMG Packaging ended 29 cents higher at $2.52, with an exchange of 200,037 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading of 41,075 units with a loss of 80 cents at $5, Cargo Handlers settled at $15, with 1,307 shares trading. Caribbean Cream ended trading of 105,900 shares with a loss of 50 cents to end at $5.35, Caribbean Flavours traded 5,500 stock units with a loss of 2 cents at $17, Caribbean Producers lost 4 cents to end at $4.96, with 9,917 units trading, Consolidated Bakeries closed 15 cents higher at $2.15, with an exchange of 327,024 shares. Derrimon Trading ended at $2.75, with 1,824 shares changing hands. Dolphin Cove concluded trading of 106,047 shares at $15, Elite Diagnostic finished with a loss of 4 cents at $2.91, with an exchange of 20,051 stock units, Everything Fresh rose 22 cents to end trading of 45,083 shares at $1.87. Express Catering settled with a loss of 60 cents at $7.40, trading 38,845 units, Fontana traded 7,342,905 shares and closed at $3.20, FosRich Group ended trading 15,321 shares and rose 20 cents higher to $3.90, General Accident traded 4,084 shares and gained 10 cents to end at $3.45, Honey Bun closed at $3.75, with 1,000 stock units trading. Indies Pharma fell 5 cents to end at $3.10, trading 28,797 shares, ISP Finance concluded 
trading at $13, with an exchange of 31,895 shares, Jamaican Teas closed at $4, with 26,665 shares trading, Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 13 cents at $3.30, with 54,920 shares changing hands. Key Insurance ended trading with a loss of 1 cent at $3.19, with 13,250 stock units, Knutsford Express finished trading 4,590 shares for $1.40 higher to close at $13, Lasco Distributors closed with a loss of 6 cents at $3.70, trading 257,635 shares, Lasco Financial ended 15 cents higher at $4.35, with 49,262 shares changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 20,338 stock units with a loss of 13 cents to close at $3.70, Main Event finished with a loss of 90 cents at $6, in exchanging 5,920 units, Medical Disposables settled with a loss of 51 cents at $6.50, with 478 shares trading. Paramount Trading ended at $2, with an exchange of 108,433 shares, SSL Venture Capital exchanged 2,000 shares to close at $1.95 and tTech closed at $5.90, with 906 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.