Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange jumped 839 percent on Tuesday, with 8,865,251 units valued at $30,164,992, up from just 944,033 units valued at $3,531,740 changing hands on Monday.
Indies Pharma accounted for 7.3 million units of the shares trading on Tuesday. At the close of trading, 20 securities changed hands, compared with 27 on Monday. The market index gained 6.08 points to close at 3,101.14 as the prices of 7 securities rose, 8 declined and 5 remained unchanged. Closing bids and offers are reflecting negative out turn for stocks in Wednesday’s trading as indicated by the negative Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator.
Trading ended with an average of 443,263 units for an average of $1,508,250 in contrast to 34,964 units for an average of $130,805 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 
185,926 shares valued at $750,760 compared to 173,730 shares valued at $714,860 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 9 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Blue Power concluded trading of 18,797 shares with a loss of 10 cents, to end at $4.60, Caribbean Flavours traded 18,871 stock units, at $17.05, Caribbean Producers fell 19 cents to close at $4.21, with 10,900 units changing hands. Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 35 cents at $2.30, with an exchange of 266,450 shares, Dolphin Cove jumped $1.48 to $13.99, with the trading of 314 shares. Everything Fresh finished 2 cents higher at $1.55, with 120,000 stock units trading, Elite Diagnostic settled at $3.20, with 32,795 units changing hands, Express Catering ended trading 619,086 shares, with a loss of 10 cents at $8, FosRich Group traded 16,621 shares, 20 cents higher at $4.30. Fontana ended trading 72,972 
shares after rising 5 cents to $4.05, GWest Corporation ended with a loss of 15 cents at $1.45, with 97,853 units trading, iCreate rose 1 cent and closed market activity at $1.02, with an exchange of 159,046 shares, Indies Pharma finished 4 cents higher at $3.09, in trading 7,319,465 shares, Jamaican Teas swapped 6,266 units at $3.90. Lasco Distributors finished at $3.80, with 57,687 units changing hands, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 41 cents at $4.25, with an exchange of 8,074 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 5,744 shares and lost 1 cent to end at $3.30, Main Event fell 25 cents to close at $5.50, with 5,310 shares trading. Stationery and Office concluded trading with 6,200 shares after rising 15 cents higher to $6.90 and tTech settled at $5.40, with 22,800 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
