Junior market stocks had big gains in January.
The volume of 1,176,492 units changed hands, valued at $6,265,417. At the close, 1 security ended with no bid to buy and 9 securities had no stocks being offered for sale. Trading could end with a strong gain at the close on Friday with a total of 9 stocks closing with bids higher than their last traded prices while none closed with a lower offer.
In trading, Access Financial Services closed at $16.80 with 9,500 units changing hands, AMG Packaging jumped $1 to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $15 with 5,514 units changing hands, Blue Power closed with only 385 units changing hands at $11, C2W Music closed with 9,935 units changing hands to close at 49 cents. Caribbean Cream ended with a loss of 15 cents as 25,562 shares changed hands to close at $4.65, Caribbean Flavours traded 43,830 units to end with a loss of 5 cents at $8.95, Caribbean Producers traded 11,000 units to gain 50 cents and closed at $5.50, Consolidated Bakeries traded 21,500 shares at $1.30. Dolphin Cove traded 5,560 units but fell 31 cents to close at $15.69,
General Accident rose 8 cents while trading 47,541 shares to close at $2.15, Honey Bun ended at a 52 weeks’ high of $9 with 28,500 units trading with a gain of 30 cents. Jamaican Teas fell 10 cents with 61,245 shares trading to close at a $4.90, KLE closed with 21,800 units changing hands at $2.22, after losing 28 cents, Knutsford express ended with 700 shares changing hands at $15.20, Lasco Distributors closed with 214,200 units trading and ended at $7.20, Lasco Financial closed at $4 with 166,857 shares changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 484,867 shares to close at $5 and tTech closed with a gain of 5 cents at $4.75 with 17,996 shares trading.