Junior Market stock trading.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange made strong recovery on Thursday with the prices of 12 securities rising, 6 falling and 8 remaining unchanged leading to the market index recovering 51.42 points to close 3,110.57.
Trading ended on Thursday with 26 securities changing hands compared to 30 on Wednesday leading to an exchange of 2,388,739 units valued at $8,494,708, compared to 62,035,877 units valued at $128,041,203 trading on Wednesday.
The average volume traded was 91,875 units for an average of $326,720, in contrast to 2,067,863 units for an average of $4,268,040 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 325,286 shares valued $800,708 and previously 351,444 shares valued $853,828. In contrast, the average trade in January was 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 7 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, AMG Packaging ended 30 cents higher at $2.50, with 190,100 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading of 16,920 units at $5, Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of 20 cents at 
$14.50, with an exchange of 2,000 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading of 7,500 shares, at $5.37. Caribbean Flavours traded 12,000 stock units with a rise of $1.85 to close at $18, Caribbean Producers finished trading 6,841 units, with the price moving 5 cents higher to $4.75, Dolphin Cove fell 5 cents to close at $15.35, trading 150 shares, Everything Fresh finished 5 cents higher at $1.90, with 14,030 stock units trading. Elite Diagnostic settled 31 cents higher at $3.40, with 29,103 units changing hands. Express Catering ended trading 15,500 shares and closed 6 cents higher at $7.06, FosRich Group traded 5,621 shares at $4, Fontana closed 10 cents higher at $4, with an exchange of 1,345,881 shares, General Accident closed 1 cent higher at $4, with 42,042 stock units changing hands. GWest Corporation ended 9 cents higher at $1.45, with an exchange of 8,000 units, Honey Bun concluded trading of 42,960 shares, with a loss of 10 cents at $3.70, Indies Pharma finished with a loss of 16 cents at $2.74, with 164,127 shares passing through the market, Jamaican Teas traded 42,300 units with a loss of 5 cents at $3.95. Jetcon Corporation closed at $3.18, trading 1,500 shares, 
Knutsford Express concluded trading of 5,050 stock units and climbed 50 cents higher to $13, Lasco Distributors finished at $3.75, with an exchange of 12,784 units, Lasco Financial rose 15 cents to $4.50, in trading 10,000 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 70,310 shares, with a loss of 9 cents at $3.20, Paramount Trading closed at $2.40, with 5,981 units changing hands, Stationery and Office concluded trading of 20,592 shares and rose 40 cents higher to $8.40 and tTech settled at $5.84, in exchanging 23,706 stock units. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% closed at $1, with 293,741 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
stock units at $4, Jetcon Corporation traded 14,500 units with a loss of 7 cents at $3.18, Knutsford Express ended with a loss of 20 cents at $12.50, with an exchange of 103,076 shares, Lasco Distributors ended trading of 73,727 stock units at $3.75. Lasco Financial closed with a loss of 15 cents at $4.35, with 35,401 units changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing settled 2 cents higher at $3.29, trading 35,900 shares, Main Event ended trading 4,452 shares, with a loss of 20 cents at $5.80, Medical Disposables traded 18,000 shares with a loss of 10 cents to close at $5.50. Paramount Trading finished trading 6,500 stock units at $2.40 and Stationery and Office ended with a loss of 40 cents at $8, trading 27,474 shares. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% ended at $1, with 6,400 stock units trading and Derrimon Trading 9% concluded trading at $2.10, with 4,833 units.
25,475 shares. Knutsford Express concluded trading of 996 stock units, with a rise of 20 cents to $12.70, Lasco Distributors closed 5 cents higher at $3.75, with 26,427 units trading, Lasco Financial settled at $4.50, with an exchange of 47,259 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading of 400 shares and rose 9 cents higher to $3.27. Main Event traded 21,655 shares at $6, Medical Disposables finished trading 300 stock units with a loss of 90 cents to $5.60, Paramount Trading closed at $2.40, in an exchange of 25,500 units, SSL Venture Capital ended 1 cent higher at $1.95, with 1,000 shares changing hands and Stationery and Office concluded trading with 22,617 shares at $8.40. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed at $1, with the trading of 146,936 shares.
Jamaican Teas traded 1,140 units at $4, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 5,100 shares, with a rise of 4 cents to $3.19. Knutsford Express fell 20 cents to end at $12.50, in exchanging 45,925 stock units, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 30 cents at $3.70, trading 89,999 units, Lasco Financial settled 30 cents higher at $4.50, with an exchange of 14,610 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 133,307 shares 8 cents higher at $3.18. Main Event traded 20,196 shares and moved 30 cents higher to $6, Medical Disposables finished trading at $6.50, with an exchange of 2,000 stock units, Paramount Trading ended swapping 7,000 units for 35 cents higher at $2.40, SSL Venture Capital ended at $1.94, with an exchange of 700 shares. Stationery and Office concluded trading of 1,000 shares and jumped 90 cents higher to $8.40 and tTech settled 4 cents higher at $5.84, with 2,000 stock units changing hands. In the Junior Market preference segment, Derrimon Trading ended at $2.10, with the trading of 6,000 stock units.
higher at $3.75, with 49,560 shares, Indies Pharma closed 14 cents higher at $3.14, with 89,033 shares changing hands, Jamaican Teas traded just 2,500 units at $4, Knutsford Express concluded trading of 1,229 stock units and rose 60 cents higher to $12.70. Lasco Distributors finished 20 cents higher at $4, exchanging 32,593 units, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 1 cent at $4.20, trading 60,136 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 53,600 shares, with a loss of 29 cents at $3.10, SSL Venture Capital ended with a loss of 1 cent at $1.94, with an exchange of 5,300 shares and Stationery and Office concluded trading of 11,000 shares with a loss of 90 cents at $7.50.
Trading volume fell a sharp 63 percent on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday leading to a fall of 18.02 points in the market index to close at 3,156.02.
units with a loss of 60 cents to end at $12.10, Lasco Distributors closed at $3.80, with 15,000 units changing hands, Lasco Financial settled 1 cent higher at $4.21, with an exchange of 2,400 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 3,086 shares 9 cents higher to $3.39. Main Event traded 15 cents higher at $5.70, with 100,000 shares changing hands, Medical Disposables finished trading with a loss of 10 cents at $6.50, with an exchange of 58,183 stock units and SSL Venture Capital ended 20 cents higher at $1.95, with 2,000 shares. In the Junior Market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% closed at $1, with 4,700 shares changing hands.
stock units trading, Honey Bun concluded trading of 21,701 shares, and closed 14 cents higher at $3.89, Indies Pharma ended trading at $2.95, with 82,351 units, Jamaican Teas closed trading with 5,600 stock units after declining 15 cents at $3.85. Jetcon Corporation closed at $3.25, with 13,000 units changing hands, KLE Group closed 10 cents higher at $3.20, after trading 530 shares, Knutsford Express ended at $12.70, with an exchange of 15,039 shares, Lasco Distributors lost 20 cents to close at $3.80, with 20,683 stock units changing hands. Lasco Financial finished with a loss of 40 cents at $4.20, with an exchange of 42,118 units, Lasco Manufacturing settled 7 cents higher at $3.30, in trading 11,813 shares, Main Event ended trading 2,000 shares, with a loss of 7 cents to close at $5.55, Stationery and Office ended at $8.40, trading 10,000 shares and tTech finished with a loss of 5 cents at $5.80, as 3,227 shares changed hands.
The Junior Market index of the Jamaica Stock Exchange dropped 19.89 points to 3,169.67 at the end of trading on Tuesday, as the prices of 7 securities rose, 9 declined and 11 remained unchanged.
of 15 cents at $3.75, with an exchange of 8,100 stock units, Indies Pharma closed at $3.05 trading 104,845 shares. Iron Rock ended 50 cents higher at $5, with 7,000 units trading, Jamaican Teas exchanged 100 shares at $4, Knutsford Express finished trading of 40,878 shares at $12.70, Lasco Distributors closed 11 cents higher at $4, in trading 11,886 shares. Lasco Financial ended 10 cents higher at $4.60, with 3,196 shares traded, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 23,455 stock units, with a loss of 17 cents to end at $3.23, Main Event dropped 88 cents to close at $5.62, in exchanging 9,541 units. Paramount Trading ended trading with a loss of 15 cents at $2.05, with 27,433 shares and Stationery and Office traded 10,643 shares with a loss of 20 cents at $8.40. In the Junior Market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed trading at $1, with 1,000 shares changing hands.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed on Friday with 27 securities changing hands, compared to 28 securities changing hands on Thursday, with a sharp drop in the number of securities trading.
cents higher at $4.50, with 10,410 units changing hands, Jamaican Teas finished at $4, trading 900 shares. Jetcon Corporation settled 10 cents higher at $3.25, with the exchange of 78,059 shares. Knutsford Express traded 14,902 shares at $12.70, Lasco Distributors closed at $3.80, exchanging 140,902 shares, Lasco Financial closed with 32,549 shares changing hands and ended 10 cents higher at $4.60, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 35,958 stock units 3 cents higher at $3.28. Main Event finished exchanging 6,247 units, with a loss of 45 cents at $6.50, Stationery and Office traded 8,400 shares at $8.60 and tTech climbed 85 cents to $5.85, with 5,020 units changing hands. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed at $1, with the trading of 1,800 shares.
The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange lost 4 percent in value since the start of the year and would have suffered a greater loss had Fontana that was listed in the dying days of 2018 not added positively to the index. 
shares, AMG Packaging ended 6 cents higher at $2.46, with an exchange of 33,184 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading with 7,507 units and lost 15 cents to end at $4.85, CAC 2000 finished trading 100 shares at $15. Cargo Handlers lost 3 cents to close at $15, with 128,861 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cream ended trading of 14,700 shares with the price rising 55 cents to $5.85, Caribbean Flavours traded 5,620 stock units and rose $1 to end at $19, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 19 cents at $2.60, with an exchange of 49,631 shares. Elite Diagnostic finished 5 cents higher at $3.05, with an exchange of 36,461 stock units. Everything Fresh traded 23,680 shares to close at $1.80, Express Catering settled 30 cents higher at $7.80, with 77,267 units changing hands, Fontana lost 4 cents to close at $3.45 with 9,633,854 shares changing hands and sucking out a great deal of the supply hanging over the market. FosRich Group ended trading of 14,920 shares and gained 19 cents to $3.95, General Accident traded 235,753 shares and gained 25 cents to close at $4, GWest Corporation finished trading 79,376 shares with a loss of 22 cents at $1.50. Honey Bun closed at $3.90, with 500 stock 
units changing hands, Indies Pharma rose 5 cents in ending at $3.05, with 346,285 units trading, Jamaican Teas finished 29 cents higher at $4, with an exchange of 3,000 shares, Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 15 cents at $3.15, with 580,985 shares trading. Key Insurance ended trading 5,590 stock units, with a loss of 10 cents, to end at $3, Knutsford Express finished trading of 6,706 shares, at $12.70, Lasco Distributors closed 15 cents higher at $3.80, exchanging 507,480 shares, Lasco Financial ended at $4.50, with 20,544 shares. Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading with a loss of 15 cents at $3.25, with an exchange of 273,968 stock units, Paramount Trading ended trading of 244,690 shares, 11 cents higher at $2.20, Stationery and Office traded 20,881 shares with a loss of 40 cents to close at $8.60 and tTech gained 1 cent to end at $5, trading 118,072 units. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading ended at $2.10, with 48,000 stock units changing hands.