Jamaican Teas CEO, John Mahfood – the company had the largest volume traded on Friday with a director selling the bulk of it.
The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed on Friday after a big rise in the level of trading with Jamaican Teas dominating with 10 million units and Caribbean Producers 1 million units.
Trading ended with 31 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 12,721,566 units valued at $72,975,684 compared to 3,173,551 units valued at $18,232,682 from 28 securities trading on Thursday. Market activities ended with prices of 10 securities rising, 10 falling and 11 remaining unchanged with the Junior Market Index adding 26.63 points to 3,585.94. The market gained 123.40 points or 4 percent for August and is up 10.4 percent for the year to date.
Trading ended with an average of 410,373 units at $2,354,054 for each security traded, in contrast to 113,341 units for an average of $651,167 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 232,398 units valued at $1,072,851 and previously 223,248 units at $1,006,985 for each stock traded. In contrast, July ended with an average of 138,412 units at $563,215 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers.
Stocks closing with price changes|Blue Power dropped 50 cents in trading of 13,261 units in closing at $8, Cargo Handlers declined 43 cents exchanging 2,000 shares to settle at $10.57, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 7 cents at $2, swapping of 100 shares. Everything Fresh ended with a loss of 1 cent at $1.39 with 12,000 stock units changing hands, Elite Diagnostic fell 1 cent to close at $6.99 with 6,630 stock units changing hands, Fontana ended trading with 310,347 shares, after rising 20 cents to end at $8.20. iCreate ended with a loss of 1 cent at 87 cents with 6,059 stock units changing hands, Indies Pharma ended trading with 3,970 shares, after rising 2 cents to end at $3.42, Iron Rock Insurance closed 20 cents higher at $4.20, with 300 stock units trading, ISP Finance lost $3.49 in trading 556 shares to close at $17.51. Jamaican Teas declined 5 cents to settle at $5.85 in trading 10,134,244 shares. Jetcon Corporation climbed 20 cents and exchanged 28,011 shares at $2.20, Knutsford Express climbed $1.30 to settle at $12.50 with 22,223 shares changing hands, Limners and Bards ended trading with 356,168 shares, after rising 10 cents to end at $3.20, Lasco Distributors exchanged of 75,626 units and gained 12 cents to end at $3.32. 
Lasco Financial ended market activity exchanging 55,470 shares to close at $5 after falling 15 cents, Lasco Manufacturing climbed 30 cents with 178,292 shares crossing the exchange at $5.60 at the close, Medical Disposables gained $1.09 to end at $8.59 with 30,144 stock units trading. Paramount Trading ended with a loss of 1 cent at $1.99 with 33,800 stock units changing hands and Stationery and Office Supplies ended with a loss of 1 cent at $12.49 with 25,691 stock units changing hands. In the junior market preference segment, CAAC 2000 gained 24 cents exchanging just 100 shares at $1.14.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
