General Accident traded 2.8m shares on Friday
The market ended with 14 securities trading, 5 of which declined and 6 advancing and 3,473,758 units changing hands, valued at $11,095,522. One stock traded at an intraday 52 weeks’ high
At the close, 1 security ended with no bid and 6 securities had no stocks being offered for sale. There were 3 stocks closing with bids that were higher than their last selling prices and 5 ended with lower offers.
In trading, Access Financial traded 24,500 in one block as a cross at $16.50 for a loss of 1 cent, AMG Packaging gained 5 cents with 5,814 units changing hands to close at $11.47, Caribbean Cream traded 120,000 shares and rose 69 cents to $4.75 but closed with the offer at $4.30 to sell 45,000 units. Caribbean Flavours had 3,000 units trading firm at $8, Caribbean Producers traded 16,000 shares but slipped 25 cents to $4.17, Consolidated Bakeries ended with 21,000 shares trading at $1.30 after dropping 18 cents,
Dolphin Cove closed with 100 shares changing hands at $15.29, General Accident jumped 60 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $3 with 2,811,669 shares. Honey Bun traded only 1,000 units at $13.08 after falling 41 cents, Jamaican Teas closed at $5 after the split of the issued stock into 2 shares, with 222,773 units traded, the price went as high as $5.05 before closing. Lasco Distributors closed with 32,418 units trading with a rise of 22 cents at $5.98, Lasco Financial ended at $3.02 with 33,785 shares changing hands with a 2 cents gain and Lasco Manufacturing ended with 94,183 shares changing hands to close at $3.90 with a rise of 9 cents.
