Jamaican Teas was the leading trade with 4.5 million shares on Monday.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with on Monday with the Index climbing 38.36 points to close at
3,166.23 as the prices of 11 securities rose, 11 fell and 9 remained unchanged.
ICreate was listed on Monday and traded to close at a 52 weeks’ high, of $1.09. The stock was sold to the public in an IPO at $1.01 in late January.
Trading ended with 31 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 6,329,310 units valued at $24,906,240 compared to 2,862,529 units valued at $11,545,436 from 28 securities changing hands on Friday.
The average was 204,171 units for $803,427, in contrast to 102,233
units for an average of $412,337 on Friday. The average volume and value
for the month to date amounts to units 238,595 valued at $668,712 and
previously 241,136 valued at $658,769. In contrast, January closed with average of 2,245,428 units with a value of $7,372,574 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
At the close of the trading, Access Financial closed $4 higher at $53, trading 1,469 shares, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 4 cents at $2.45, with an exchange of 5,500 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading of 2,000 units and rose 4 cents to close at $4.98, Cargo Handlers settled at $14,with 3,950 shares changing hands. Caribbean Cream ended trading of 415 shares after a 5 cents rise to $5.37, Caribbean Producers traded 100,000 units with the price moving 10 cents higher to $4.60, Consolidated Bakeries closed at $1.80, with 10,000 shares changing hands, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 5 cents at $2.90, with an exchange of 266,310 shares. Dolphin Cove climbed 95 cents higher to $14.95 in trading 15,000 shares, Everything Fresh finished with a loss of 9 cents at $1.65, with an exchange of 44,519 stock units, Express Catering ended trading 17,000 shares with a loss of 3 cents at $7.46, FosRich Group traded 7,484 shares, at $4. Fontana lost 4 cents to close at $3.91, in exchanging 913,786 shares.General Accident closed at $4, with 5,575 stock units trading, GWest Corporation ended 5 cents higher at $1.80, with an exchange of 10,000 units, Honey Bun concluded trading of 11,200 shares, with a loss of 18 cents at $3.80, Indies Pharma finished with a loss of 21 cents at $2.70, trading 25,735 shares. 
Iron Rock settled with a loss of 5 cents at $3.50, with 39,030 shares changing hands, Jamaican Teas traded 4,523,710 shares, but lost 10 cents to close at $3.85, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 4,015 shares, at $3, Knutsford Express concluded trading with a loss of 10 cents at $12.90, with 10,948 stock units passing through the market. Lasco Distributors finished 5 cents higher at $3.80, in exchanging 33,333 units, Lasco Financial settled at $4.80, trading 4,000 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 3,162 shares at $3.27, Main Event traded 80 cents higher at $5.80, with 6,657 shares crossing the stock exchange platform. Medical Disposables jumped 99 cents and finished trading 65,774 stock units at $6.49, SSL Venture Capital concluded trading of 4,500 shares, at $1.95, Stationery and Office finished 15 cents higher at $8.25, in exchanging 9,551 shares and tTech ended trading of 138 units with a loss of 39 cents to $5.50.
In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed at $1, with the trading 6,652 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at
which the last trade took place.
