More junior stocks up Friday

Trading on the Junior Market defied the negative indication that the bid offer ratio showed at the close of trading on Thursday as 10 securities trading and ended with 673,874 units changing hands valued at $2,280,199. The JSE Junior Market Index advanced 14.93 points to close at 878.07, close to mid-day the junior market index had gained 20.52 points. with the price of 4 stocks advancing and 3 declining. Consolidated Bakeries closed at a 52 weeks’ high in response to a 203 percent increase in profit in the March quarter from a 14.3 percent increase in sales.
At the close of the market, there were 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and only 4 with lower offers. The junior market ended with 3 securities closing with no bids to buy and 8 securities that had no stocks being offered for sale.
Stocks trading in the junior market are, Access Financial ending with 38,164 shares changing hands to close higher by 10 cents at $17.10, Cargo Handlers finished with 36,944 units to close at $22.28, Caribbean Cream had just 800 shares trading, lost 1 cent to end at $1.19, Caribbean Flavours ended trading in 8,000 shares with the price falling 10 cents to $2, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a 15 cents increase as 307,613 units traded to land at $1.15. General Accident Insurance concluded trading with 79,105 shares changing hands 7 cents higher at $2.17, Knutsford Express traded just 100 shares at $6, Lasco Distributors traded 5,500 shares, 5 cents higher, at $1.70. Lasco Financial Services finished trading with 184,648 units, the price slipped 1 cent to $1.30 and there was dealing in 13,000 Lasco Manufacturing’s shares to close at $1.30.