Price movements were almost evenly spread on the Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market at the close on Friday as trading ended with 5,230,729 units valued at $27,124,560 changing hands.
Trading on Thursday saw trading of 31,699,661 units valued at $87,399,668.
The Market Index added 2.59 points to end at 3,413.10 as 26 securities changed hands compared to 24 on Thursday. Market activities resulted in the price of 10 securities rising, 9 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 201,182 units for an average of $1,043,252 in contrast to 1,320,819 units for an average of $3,641,653 on Thursday. In contrast, October closed with an average of 186,927 units valued at $788,734 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial lost $5.40 in trading of 10,655 units to close at $34.50, Blue Power exchanged 4,912 shares, after rising 20 cents to end at $6.80, Caribbean Producers declined by 4 cents to settle at $4.75 after 20,280 shares were swapped. Derrimon Trading lost 5 cents in swapping 109,000 units at $2.45, Dolphin Cove traded 58,972 and dropped $1.98 to settle at $9. Elite Diagnostic lost 25 cents trading 9,770 shares to close at $5.50, Express Catering ended market activity exchanging 25,065 shares to close at $6.20 after falling 10 cents. Everything Fresh shed 2 cents in trading of 17,615 units at $1.18, Fontana swapped 372,646 shares and rose 30 cents to end at $8, Fosrich exchanged 14,201 shares, after rising 7 cents to end at $4.78, General Accident dipped 6 cents in trading of 46,404 units at $8.24. GWest Corporation ended trading with 21,082 shares and gained 7 cents to end at $1.12, iCreate closed 3 cents higher at 71 cents, with 4,306 stock units trading, Lasco Distributors closed with 111,180 units changing hands and gained 5 cents to end at $3.30, Lasco Financial climbed 25 cents and exchanged 51,666 shares at $5.20. Lasco Manufacturing closed trading of 3,500,905 units and gained 22 cents to end at $5.25, Limners and Bards climbed 14 cents in exchanging 665,000 shares to close at $3, Main Event climbed 2 cents after exchanging 700 shares at $5.22 and Stationery and Office Supplies declined 28 cents trading 5,800 units at $12.17.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.