The Junior Market Index rose just 4.89 points to close at 2,933.14, trading just 19 securities but the closing bids and offers suggest that the market could enjoy a bigger bounce on Thursday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 8 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Trading ended on Wednesday, with the prices of 5 securities gaining, 4 declining while 10 remained unchanged.
At the close of market activities, 1,096,815 units valued at $3,914,766 changed hands in contrast to Tuesday, when 27 securities and 1,399,513 units valued at $6,305,138 were traded.
Market activity ended with an average of 57,727 units for an average of $206,040 in contrast to 51,834 units for an average of $233,524 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 90,161 units with an average value of $338,109 and previously 94,470 units with an average value of $355,656. April closed with an average of 121,622 units at $506,803, for each security traded.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging ended at $2, trading 9,500 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading at $30, with 900 units, CAC 2000 finished at $8.01, with 200 shares, Cargo Handlers settled at $9.85, with 861 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cream ended trading 5 cents higher at $4.70, with 29,800 shares. Derrimon Trading lost of 70 cents to end at $9.45, with 10,547 shares, Elite Diagnostic settled at $3.25, with 35,042 units, Express Catering traded 69,261 shares and closed at $5.65, FosRich Group finished trading with a loss of 5 cents at $2.30, with 197,230 shares. 
GWest Corporation ended at $2.30, with 30,671 units, ISP Finance settled at $18, with 1,400 shares, Jamaican Teas ended trading with a loss of 50 cents at $4.50, as 4,112 stock units changed hands, Jetcon Corporation closed at $4, with 9,814 units. Key Insurance finished trading with a loss of 50 cents at $3.40, exchanging 286,042 shares, KLE Group closed 25 cents higher at $2.50, with 201,200 shares, Lasco Distributors concluded trading at $4.311 after declining 1 cent, with 140,266 stock units, Lasco Financial finished with a loss of 2 cents at $5.50, trading 38,789 units and Lasco Manufacturing settled 5 cents higher at $4, with 1,180 shares. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley 8.75% settled at $6, with 30,000 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Junior Market set for a bounce on Thursday
May 9, 2018 by
