Juniors slip again on Wednesday

Activity in the junior market stocks on Wednesday was broad based with 17 active securities. Trading ended with 5 stocks advancing and 5 declining with 2,697,820 units, valued at $10,906,157 changing hands. Trading ended with a drop of 29.95 points in the index to 1,589.72 as the market ended with 2 new 52 weeks’ closing highs.
At the close there was 2 securities ending with no bid to buy and 8 securities had no stocks being offered for sale. A total of 4 stocks closed with bids higher than the last traded prices and 3 closed with lower offers.
In trading, Access Financial Services ended with 13,000 shares changing hands at $13.61, to gain 4 cents. AMG Packaging rose 5 cents and ended with 14,983 units changing hands at $6.05, C2W traded 24,000 units at 37 cents, for a fall of 1 cent, Caribbean Flavours gained 2 cents while trading 76,500 units to end at a 52 weeks’ high at $6.80, Caribbean Producers lost 10 cents, in trading 561,890 units to end at $5.50. Consolidated Bakeries ended with 45,677 shares changing hands to settle at $1.23, Derrimon Trading ended with 1,420 shares changing hands and closed at $3.45, Dolphin Cove had 1,000 units trading to settle at $15.80, General Accident ended with 52,000 shares changing hands and closed with a loss of 4 cents at $1.95. Jamaican Teas had 1,000 shares trading to close with a loss of 5 cents at $5, KLE Group ended with 1,974 units at 73 cents, Knutsford Express traded 3,000 units of $10, Lasco Distributors lost 3 cents and closed with 432,144 shares changing hands at $4.06. Lasco Financial ended with a gain of 8 cents to close at $3 with 295,033 shares changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing closed at $3.30 with 1,029,215 shares trading, Medical Disposables closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $3.55 with 10,000 shares trading as the price jumped by 55 cents and Eppley 2019 cumulative redeemable preference share ended with 134,984 units changing hands at $6.08.