Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday ended with 26 securities changing hands, up from 22 securities changing hands on Thursday and resulted in the prices of 9 securities advancing, 13 declining and 4 remaining unchanged. The Junior Market index fell 4.39 points to close at 3,172.37.
Market activities resulted in an exchange of 1,993,202 units valued at $6,873,532 compared to 2,993,554 units at $10,198,424 shares trading on Thursday.
Trading ended with an average of 76,662 units for an average of $264,367 in contrast to 136,071 units for an average of $463,565 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 2,732,277 units valued at $8,589,661 and previously 2,903,607 valued at $9,126,777, 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 4 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, Access Financial dropped $2.50 to close at $47.50, trading 143 shares, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 11 cents at $2.39, with 78,377 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading of 4,000 units, with a loss of 10 cents to end at $4.85. CAC 2000 finished with a loss of 1 cent at $15, with an exchange of 1,300 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading at $5.85, with an exchange of 5,239 shares, Caribbean Producers traded 33,427 units, and closed 25 cents higher at $5.25, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 5 cents at $2.65, with 39,150 shares changing hands. Elite Diagnostic finished 15 cents higher at $3, with an exchange of 21,300 stock units, Everything Fresh rose 30 cents in closing trading of 64,682 shares at $1.95, Express Catering settled at $7.97, trading 40,093 units, Fontana lost 19 cents to close at $3.36 with 1,294,249 shares changing hands. FosRich Group ended trading 1 cent higher at $3.76, with 33,288 shares, General Accident traded 35,678 shares at $3.50, Honey Bun closed with a loss of 5 cents at $3.75, with 
3,971 stock units changing hands. Indies Pharma gained 5 cents and ended at $3.05, with 16,438 units changing hands, Jamaican Teas finished trading of 31,650 shares with a loss of 30 cents at $3.70. Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 15 cents at $3.15, in exchanging 4,500 shares, Key Insurance ended trading with a loss of 8 cents at $3.10, with 7,947 stock units, Knutsford Express traded 5,752 shares, with a loss of 1 cent at $12, Lasco Distributors closed 10 cents higher at $3.80, with 35,142 shares changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 39,200 stock units and moved 2 cents higher to $3.22, Main Event finished 60 cents higher at $6.50, trading 20,833 units, Medical Disposables settled with a loss of 40 cents at $6.60, with 6,900 shares trading, Paramount Trading ended with a rise of 5 cents to $2.05, with an exchange of 61,831 shares and tTech closed at $5, with an exchange of 3,600 units. In the Junior Market preference segment, CAC 2000 lost 16 cents to close at $1, trading 104,512 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
