I$P hits a new high of $18 on Tuesday.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with 19 securities changing hands versus 15 on Monday and the market index falling 37.80 points to end at 3,230.87 but with nearly twice the number of stocks closing higher than lower.
At the close, advancing stocks were ahead of declining stocks 11 to 6 with 2,359,315 units valued at $15,986,987 changing hands compared to 1,736,843 valued at $13,964,419 on Monday. Trading ended with 10 stocks having bids higher than their last sale prices and none with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average of 124,174 units for an average value of $841,420 traded, compared to 115,790 units for an average value of $930,961 on the previous trading day. The average volume and value for the month to date are 119,982 units and $886,191. The average volume and value for April ended at 502,597 units and $2,768,003.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging climbed 87 cents and closed at $4.90 with just 2,655 units changing hands, 
CAC 2000 rose 10 cents in trading 300 shares at $7.30, Cargo Handlers lost 10 cents in trading 1,000 shares at $20.30, Caribbean Cream closed trading with 22,650 units and gained 40 cents to end at $8, Caribbean Flavours loss $1.50 in trading 7,400 units to end at $11. Caribbean Producers traded 102,302 shares changing hands, to close at $3.75, Derrimon Trading had 2,851 units changing hands to close with a gain of 630 cents at $8.50, Dolphin Cove lost 20 cents and closed trading with 5,100 shares at $20.80, Honey Bun gained 5 cents with 9,711 shares changing hands, to close at $7.55, ISP Finance climbed $1 to end at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $18 with 55,529 units. Jamaican Teas rose 5 cents in trading 137,555 shares, to close at $4.80, 
Jetcon Corporation rose 10 cents and ended at $13 with 20,675 shares trading, the stock closed with a bid of $13.20 following the release of the company’s annual report, that stated that revenue for the first quarter of 2017 is up 75 percent, with profit more than doubling that of the first quarter of 2016. Key Insurance lost 1 cent in trading 6,031 units to close at $3.89, Knutsford Express rose just 1 cent trading with 559 shares at $41.01, Lasco Distributors ended with 1,020,270 units trading with a rise of 5 cents at $7.25, Lasco Financial ended with 3,000 shares changing hands at $4.60, Lasco Manufacturing fell 20 cents and closed at $5.50 while trading 260,000 shares, Main Event fell 50 cents and ended trading 664,863 shares, to end at $6, Medical Disposables jumped 40 cents and ended at $6 with 36,864 units trading.
