Junior market slipped slightly – Monday

At the close, the junior market index fell 14.22 points to close at 1,904.71. The market ended with 18 active securities, 8 of which advanced and 5 declined as a mere 693,955 units changed hands, valued at $,269,270. There were 3 stocks closing with bids that were higher than their last selling prices and 2 ended with lower offers.
In trading the market closed with one new high and one new low. At the end, Blue Power closed with a gain of $1.05 at $14.05 with only 190 units changing hands, Caribbean Cream traded a mere 100 shares as the price lost 5 cents to end at $4.70, Caribbean Flavours had 1,000 shares changing hands to end at $7.56 for a 1 cent gain. Caribbean Producers traded 23,418 shares to end with a loss of 60 cents at $4.10, Consolidated Bakeries had 40,482 units trading, with a loss of 1 cent to end at $1.24, C2W Music fell 4 cents with 6,600 units changing hands to close at a 52 weeks’ low of 33 cents. Honey Bun had 3,160 units trading but rose by 49 cents to end at $11.50, Iron Rock had 245 shares trading at $4, Jamaican Teas closed at $4 after trading 650 units to gain 20 cents. Jetcon Corporation closed at $2.90 after 129,320 shares changed hands, Key Insurance traded at a new high of $2.85 after rising 25 cents with 23,159 units changing hands. KLE Group closed at $1.65 with 100,000 shares changing hands, Knutsford Express closed with 350 units changing hands at $22, Lasco Distributors lost 5 cents and ended with 61,955 units trading at $5.60. Lasco Financial ended at $2.75 with 9,121 shares changing hands, for a loss of 25 cents, Lasco Manufacturing ended with 287,905 shares changing hands and gained 10 cents to close at $3.65, Medical Disposables closed with a gain of 12 cents with 1,000 shares trading at $3.42 and tTech gained 30 cents with 5,300 shares trading to end at $4.30. tTech plans releasing audited accounts for 2015 around the middle of April a source from the company advised IC Insider. the source indicates that the JSE advised that since they listed in January, after the year end the accounts to the end of December last year was not a requirement, the company decided to release the report when completed nevertheless.