Junior Market suffers losses – Monday

The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange recorded a big fall in the Market Index on Monday by 31.03 points to close at 3,176.89 with the prices of 8 securities rising, 11 falling and 6 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with 25 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 1,192,642 units valued at $4,117,828, compared to 2,928,176 units valued at $13,658,144 on Friday, from 25 securities changing hands.
Trading ended with an average of 47,706 units for an average of $164,713 in contrast to 117,127 units for an average of $546,326 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 156,428 units at a value of $857,109, versus 164,307 units at a value of $907,282, previously. November, ended with an average of 190,475 units valued at $653,358 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activity, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 10 cents at $1.85, in trading 6,000 stock units, Blue Power fell $1.20 trading of 10,677 units and closed at $5, Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of 60 cents at $14.10, with 526 shares changing hands. Caribbean Cream ended trading of just 100 shares and rose 32 cents, to end at $5.82, Caribbean Producers finished trading of 54,500 units and rose 4 cents higher to $5.44, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.57, with 1,007 shares traded. Elite Diagnostic finished with a loss of 13 cents at $2.87, with an exchange of 1,229 stock units, Eppley settled at $9, in exchanging 1,180 units, Everything Fresh fell 40 cents and ended trading 160,924 shares to close at $1.40. Express Catering ended trading 8,100 shares and rose by 10 cents to $8, FosRich Group exchanged 59,022 shares with a rise of 20 cents to end at $4.05, General Accident finished trading 10 cents higher at $3.50, with 25,347 shares changing hands, GWest Corporation closed at $1.60, after 1,400 stock units traded. Honey Bun ended 37 cents higher at $3.47, trading 124,236 units, Indies Pharma ended trading 368,110 shares to close at $3.10, Jamaican Teas settled with a rise of 10 cents to $3.90, with 26,289 shares trading, KLE Group finished with 500 shares trading at $3.40. Knutsford Express rose $1 to end at $13, with 1,500 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors  ended with a loss of 15 cents at $3.80, with an exchange of 122,927 shares. Lasco Financial  concluded trading with 78,544 stock units, and falling $1.03 cents to close at $3.97,  Lasco Manufacturing  finished with a loss of 40 cents at $3.10, in exchanging 100,771 units, Main Event settled with a loss of 20 cents at $6, with 17,943 shares changing hands.

Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.