The junior market is within reach of a new high.
The market closed 5 stocks rising, while 5 declined out of 13 securities that traded. The market index gained 12.01 points, to close at 2,334.43 and is 30.3 percent ahead of the close of 2015.
Trading volume and value rose 25 percent or more from Thursday’s levels, ending with 1,372,103 units changing hands, 35 percent more than on Thursday, while the value traded climbed by 25 percent to $6,508,601, from $5,213,760 changing hands on Thursday. Market activities ended with 4 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 ending with lower offers.
At the close, Cargo Handlers stock price closed with the bid at $90.05 with 3,000 units, nearly $4 ahead of the last sale price with no units offered for sale, next in line to buy is 5865 shares at $90, there were 1,000 units offered at $100. Key Insurance that reported poor second quarter results continued with the offer at $2.35 to sell 18,566 shares, immediately below, is an offer of 152,290 units at $2.38, compared with the last sale of $2.49. There were no bids to buy the stock at the close.AMG Packaging jumped 16 cents and ended trading with 16,039 units at $17.15, Caribbean Cream rose 10 cents with 122,700 shares changing hands at $9.20, Consolidated Bakeries lost by 5 cents to end at $2.35 with 46,000 units changing hands,
C2W Music ended at 23 cents with 1,200 shares changing hands after rising 3 cents. Derrimon Trading rose 40 cents to end at $3.50 with 2,000 shares trading, General Accident closed trading with 600,171 units at $2.10, Honey Bun gained 10 cents in trading just 86,500 units to end at $6.25. Jetcon Corporation had 17,344 units changing hands to end at with a loss of 25 cents at $4.70. Lasco Distributors closed with 312,271 units trading and ended at $7, Lasco Manufacturing fell 5 cents and closed at $4.75 with 119,872 shares trading, Medical Disposables traded 16,733, shares with the price remaining unchanged at $4 and tTech traded 11,273 shares to end at $6.
