The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange index rose on Friday, 1,895,979 units valued at $7,592,683traded, down sharply from 3,232,801 units valued at $12,857,715 changing hands on Thursday.
At the close of trading, 23 securities changed hands, compared with 27 on Thursday. The market index rose 15.40 points to close at 3,108.25 as the prices of 7 securities rose, 9 declined and 7 remained unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 82,434 units for an average of $330,117 in contrast to 119,733 units for an average of $476,212 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 183,215 shares valued at $$754,782 compared to 222,952 shares valued at $789,131 on the previous day. In contrast, February closed with an average of 235,225 units valued at $679,790 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 bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging ended at $2.10, trading 20,200 stock units ,Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of 4 cents at $12.46, with 600 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cream ended trading of 4,434 shares at $5.50, Caribbean Flavours traded 4,358 stock units, with a loss of 17 cents at $17.05. Caribbean Producers finished 7 cents higher at $4.20, with an exchange of 3,727 units, Derrimon Trading ended 1 cent higher at $2.66, in trading 15,145 shares, Everything Fresh finished at $1.55, with 36,825 stock units changing hands, Elite Diagnostic settled 5 cents higher at $3.25, with 194,985 units passing through the market. Express Catering ended trading 93,875 shares with a rise of 40 cents to $8, FosRich Group traded with 946,315 shares, with a loss of 20 cents to close at $4.30, Fontana finished trading with a loss of 4 cents at $3.97, with 28,700 shares crossing the exchange trading platform. General Accident closed at 
$4.50, with an exchange of 19,850 stock units, iCreate lost 1 cent and closed market activity at $1.01, with an exchange of 111,640 shares, Indies Pharma finished with a loss of 3 cents at $3.02, in trading 34,600 shares. Iron Rock settled with a loss of 11 cents at $2.99, with 119,786 shares trading, Jamaican Teas traded 4,500 units, after rising 37 cents to $3.97, Jetcon Corporation climbed 37 cents higher to $3.24, with an exchange of 7,785 shares, KLE Group ended at $2.65, with 150 shares trading. Lasco Distributors closed 4 cents higher at $3.80, with 97,950 units changing hands, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 15 cents at $4.50, trading 68,459 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 37,509 shares and lost 19 cents to close at $3.31, Main Event traded 42,586 shares at $5.50 and Stationery and Office concluded trading of 2,000 shares at $7.50.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
