Juniors suffer small fall – Wednesday

The junior market declined moderately on Wednesday with just 9 securities changing hands as trading ended with 1,960,611 units, valued at $11,818,736 changing hands. At the close 3 stocks rose while 3 declined with one closing at new highs. The market index fell 7.61 points to close at 2,230.46.
At the end of trading 7 stocks closed with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 ended with lower offers.
At the close, Caribbean Cream had 418,620 shares changing hands, but fell 5 cents to close at $7, Consolidated Bakeries traded 81,150 units to end at $2.50, C2W Music traded 11,000 shares and lost 2 cent to end at 28 cents, Honey Bun had 38,815 shares changing hands with a gain of 1 cent, to close at $5.60. Jamaican Teas traded 3,286 units to close at $3.80, Jetcon Corporation traded 326,248 shares and gained 30 cents to close at $3, following the company’s six months’ results, showing strong gains in profit over the 2015 period. Lasco Distributors ended with 1,054,718 shares changing hands at $7, Lasco Financial gained 10 cents while trading 13,000 units to close at $3.40 and Lasco Manufacturing closed at $4.97 with 13,774 shares trading, after falling 3 cents.