Junior just 35 points from record – Thursday

The Junior market headed higher at the close on Thursday, with the market rising with 7 stocks rising, while 3 declined out of 15 securities that traded. The market index gained 21.50 points, to close at 2,322.42 and is up 29.7 percent from the close of 2015. The index is now only 34.78 points adrift of the all-time high reached in January this year. Market activities ended with 4 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 ending with lower offers.
Trading volume and value rose over 60 percent from Wednesday’s levels, ending with 1,015,005 units changing hands, 60 percent more than on Wednesday, while the value traded climbed by 94 percent to $5,213,760, compared to $2,690,732 changing hands on Wednesday.
At the close, Cargo Handlers stock price closed with the bid at $90.01 with 5,765 units, nearly $4 ahead of the last sale price with no units offered for sale. Key Insurance that reported poor second quarter results continued with the offer at $2.37 to sell 152,290 units, compared with the last sale of $2.49. There were to be no bids to buy the stock at the close.
AMG Packaging jumped $1.99 and ended trading with 26,361 units to end at $16.99, CAC 2000 traded just 200 shares at $6.40, Caribbean Cream lost 10 cents with 37,106 shares changing hands at $9.10, Caribbean Flavours added just 1 cent in closing at $8.01 with 5,358 shares changing hands, Caribbean Producers traded just 46,370 shares to close at $3.40. Consolidated Bakeries rose by 5 cents to end at $2.40 with 6,017 units changing hands, Dolphin Cove ended at $13.70 with 500 shares trading, General Accident fell 15 cents and closed trading with 253,080 units at $2.10, Honey Bun lost 9 cents in trading just 200 units to end at $6.15. KLE Group ended at $1.85 with 5,800 shares changing hands after rising 5 cents, Knutsford Express had 334 units changing hands to end at with a rise of 50 cents at $24.50, Lasco Distributors closed with 240,980 units trading and ended with a rise of 20 cents at $7. Lasco Financial rose by 3 cents with 2,850 shares changing hands to close at $3.28, Lasco Manufacturing closed at $4.80 with 388,949 shares trading, Medical Disposables traded 18,400, shares with the price remaining unchanged at $4 and tTech traded 28,870 shares at $6.