Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday resulted in an exchange of 2,589,319 units valued at $7,927,611, down from 8,871,009 units valued at $29,431,464 on Thursday.
Market activity closed with just 23 securities changing hands, down from 30 securities trading on Thursday. At the close, the prices of 5 stocks rose, 6 fell and 12 remained unchanged. Trading activity moved the Junior Market Index up 7.17 points to 3,222.34.
Trading ended with an average of 112,579 units for an average of $344,679 in contrast to 295,700 units for an average of $981,049 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 617,911 units valued at $2,530,504, previously 659,569 units valued at $2,710,697. 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 7 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, AMG Packaging ended 18 cents higher at $2.70, with 292,202 stock units trading, Blue Power concluded trading of 50,500 units with a loss of 5 cents at $4.95, Caribbean Cream ended trading 14 cents higher at $5.49, with 
an exchange of 700 shares. Consolidated Bakeries closed at $2.15, with 604,234 shares trading, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 15 cents at $2.60, exchanging 207,513 shares. Elite Diagnostic finished with a loss of 4 cents at $2.87, trading 4,500 stocks, Everything Fresh lost 3 cents to end trading of 106,600 shares at $1.84. Express Catering jumped 60 cents to $8, with 75,198 units changing hands, Fontana gained 10 cents in trading 843,661 shares and closed at $3.30, but the stock closed with more selling than buying, FosRich Group ended trading of 4,500 shares at $3.90. GWest Corporation traded 18,666 shares at $1.75, Honey Bun concluded trading of 3,778 units at $3.75, Indies Pharma fell 10 cents to end at $3, trading 56,353 shares, ISP Finance ended at $13, with just 1,000 units 
trading, Jamaican Teas concluded trading with 24,904 shares at $4, Jetcon Corporation finished at $3.30, with 26,161 shares trading. Knutsford Express traded 14,050 units at $13, Lasco Distributors finished trading 122,917 shares at $3.70, Lasco Financial closed at $4.35, trading 13,000 shares. Main Event concluded trading with 21,677 stock units, and gained 90 cents to close at $6.90, Medical Disposables finished 10 cents higher at $6.60, with 3,500 units changing hands, SSL Venture Capital exchanged 92,000 shares to close at $1.95 and tTech finished trading of just 1,705 stock units with a loss of 40 cents at $5.50.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.