Junior Market crawls higher – Monday

Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange finished on Monday with 16 securities changing hands, resulting in the prices of 6 advancing, 4 declining and 6 remaining unchanged.
The market closed with an exchange of 1,335,600 units valued at $7,277,183 compared to 1,515,647 units valued at $7,693,114 on Friday as the Junior Market Index advanced by 11.77 points to close at 3,045.90.
Trading ended with an average of 83,475 units for an average of $454,824 in contrast to 65,898 units for an average of $334,483 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 78,395 units valued at $358,806 compared 75,762 units valued at $353,074 previously. In contrast, September closed with average of 116,176 units valued at $538,652 for each security traded.
Trading ended with the market sentiments looking mixed for Tuesday’s trading activity as 2 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging gained 1 cent to $3.50, with 1,000 shares, Caribbean Cream finished trading 9 cents higher at $5.99, with 16,882 shares, Caribbean Flavours traded with a loss of 90 cents closed at $11, with 10,000 units, Caribbean Producers concluded trading 4 cents higher at $3.74, with 8,813 shares. Express Catering finished trading at $5, with 106,874 units, General Accident concluded trading at $3, with 21,581 shares, Honey Bun finished trading at $5, with 20,000 units, Iron Rock closed at $3.15, with 63,640 stock units changing hands, Jetcon Corporation ended with a loss of 14 cents at $4.85, with 20,786 shares trading. Lasco Distributors climbed 19 cents to $6.49, with 604,447 shares, Lasco Financial finished trading at $4.20, with 9,850 units, Lasco Manufacturing closed 20 cents higher at $4.20, with 191,175 shares. Main Event fell 32 cents to $5.25, with 90,976 stock units changing hands, Paramount Trading finished with a loss of 20 cents at $3, with 34,560 shares, Stationery and Office added 10 cents to conclude trading at $5.60, with 132,451 stock units and tTech traded at $7.05, with 2,565 stock units changing hands.