Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed on Friday with 27 securities changing hands, compared to 28 securities changing hands on Thursday, with a sharp drop in the number of securities trading.
Trading ended with, the prices of 11 securities rising, 6 declining and 10 remaining unchanged leading the Junior Market Index to rise 25.47 points to end at 3,143.78.
Market activity, resulted in an exchange of 970,997 units valued at $3,844,893, compared to 12,627,615 units valued at $50,730,330, trading on Thursday.
Trading ended with an average of 35,963 units for an average of $142,403 in contrast to 450,986 units for an average of $1,811,797 on Thursday, in contrast, the average trade in January was 2,245,428 units with a value of $7,372,574 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, Access Financial closed at $45.50, with 13,668 shares changing hands, AMG Packaging ended 19 cents higher at $2.65, with an exchange of 84,556 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading 11,384 units at $4.85, CAC 2000 finished 2 cents higher at $15.02, with 1,900 shares trading. Cargo Handlers settled at $15, while trading 2,584 shares, Caribbean Producers finished trading 2,266 units with a loss of 22 cents at $4.78, Consolidated Bakeries closed 18 cents higher at $2.08, with an exchange of 3,800 shares, Derrimon Trading ended trading 63,365 shares at $2.60, Elite Diagnostic finished 5 cents higher at $3.10, with 29,106 stock units changing hands. Everything Fresh lost 20 cents trading 119,700 shares, to close at $1.60, Express Catering settled with a loss of 30 cents at $7.50, trading 4,165 units, Fontana rose 5 cents to close at $3.50 with 164,928 shares changing hands, FosRich Group ended trading 1,100 shares, with a loss of 7 cents at $3.88. General Accident traded 48,120 shares, with a loss of 18 cents at $3.82, GWest Corporation finished trading 77,708 shares at $1.50, Honey Bun closed at $3.90, with 7,500 stock units trading, Iron Rock ended 5 
cents higher at $4.50, with 10,410 units changing hands, Jamaican Teas finished at $4, trading 900 shares. Jetcon Corporation settled 10 cents higher at $3.25, with the exchange of 78,059 shares. Knutsford Express traded 14,902 shares at $12.70, Lasco Distributors closed at $3.80, exchanging 140,902 shares, Lasco Financial closed with 32,549 shares changing hands and ended 10 cents higher at $4.60, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 35,958 stock units 3 cents higher at $3.28. Main Event finished exchanging 6,247 units, with a loss of 45 cents at $6.50, Stationery and Office traded 8,400 shares at $8.60 and tTech climbed 85 cents to $5.85, with 5,020 units changing hands. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed at $1, with the trading of 1,800 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
