Dolphin Cove closed at a new high on Friday.
Volume on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange remained low but the market ended trading with a gain of 33.08 points, to a record close of 3,256.31 points on Friday and gains of 25.5 percent for the year to date.
At the close, 22 securities traded versus 18 on Thursday with declining stocks outnumbered advancing stocks 7 to 9 with 1,069,397 valued at $6,595,548 changing hands compared to 299,565 valued at $1,802,981 on Thursday.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average of a mere 48,609 units for an average value of $299,798 traded, compared to 16,643 units for an average value of $100,166 on the previous trading day. The average volume and value for the month to date are 502,597 units and $2,768,003. The average volume and value for the month to the previous trading day ended at 527,819 units and $2,905,125. The average volume and value for March was 137,459 units and $1,313,411.
Trading ended with 11 stocks having bids higher than their last sale prices and 1 ending with a lower offer.
At the close of the market on Friday, AMG Packaging closed with a loss of 1 cent at $4.99 with 43,224 units changing hands, Blue Power jumped $2 to close at $37 with 3,240 units changing hands, CAC 2000 traded 5,000 shares to close with a loss of 70 cents at $7.20, Cargo Handlers traded 1,100 shares to close at $20.10, Caribbean Cream closed trading with 330,000 units and gained 2 cents to end at $7.56, Caribbean Producers ended at $3.75 with 260,414 shares trading, Consolidated Bakeries rose 21 cents with 40,000 shares changing hands, to close at $3.20. C2W Music had 4,000 units changing hands to close with a gain of 6 cents at 43 cents, Dolphin Cove jumped 92 cents and ended at a 52 weeks’ high of $21 with 1,000 shares trading, Honey Bun rose 5 cents with just 100 shares changing hands, to close at $7.55, Jamaican Teas traded 141,771 shares, to close at $4.75, Jetcon Corporation lost 30 cents and ended at $12.70 with 18,700 shares trading, 
KLE Group slipped 20 cents to end at $2.80 with 17,105 shares changing hands, Knutsford Express closed trading with 12,238 shares at $41, Lasco Distributors rose 50 cents and ended with 33,787 units trading at $7.50, Lasco Financial lost 15 cents and ended with 25,810 shares changing hands at $4.60, Lasco Manufacturing lost 65 cents to close at $5.60 while trading 3,678 shares, Main Event ended trading 70,943 shares, to close at $6, Medical Disposables traded 41,788 shares, lost 40 cents to close at $5.60, Paramount Trading dropped 45 cents to end at $3 with 14,500 units trading and tTech ended with 1,000 units changing hands at $7.45 after falling by 5 cents.
