Dolphin Cove dominated trading.
Trading in Fontana shares was again dominant in the trading on Friday the Junior Market as the price pulled back from Thursday’s close, but Dolphin Cove shared in the spotlight with 47 percent of the volume traded versus 37 per cent for Fontana.
Market activity ended trading with an exchange of 16,780,456 units valued at $150,707,233, compared to 10,552,784 units valued at $39,947,417 on Thursday. At the close of trading, 25 securities changed hands, resulting in the prices of 10 rising, 9 declining and 6 remained unchanged, compared to 22 securities changing hands on Thursday.
The average trade ended at 671,218 units for an average of $6,028,289 in contrast to 479,672 units for an average of $1,815,792 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 859,400 units valued at $3,408,614 and previously 890,764 units valued at $2,972,001. In contrast, December ended with an average of 136,222 units at a value of $737,367 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 higher bids than their last selling prices and 3 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, AMG Packaging ended at $1.94, trading 5,512 stock units, Blue Power jumped 76 cents to $5.80, trading 33,806 units, CAC 2000 finished at $18, with 245 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cream ended trading of 69,578 shares and rose 10 cents to $5.95, Caribbean Flavours traded 7,000 stock units at $19. Caribbean Producers finished trading 1 cent higher at $4.96, with 112,023 units, Consolidated Bakeries closed 5 cents higher at $1.80, exchanging 157,000 shares, Derrimon Trading ended at $2.50, with 41,010 shares changing hands, Dolphin Cove concluded trading 7,862,970 shares with a loss of $1.50 at $15. Elite Diagnostic finished with a loss of 8 cents at $2.87, trading of 57,342 stock units, Everything Fresh shed 5 cents to end trading of 39,325 shares at $1.69, Express Catering settled 5 cents 
higher at $8, with the trading of 39,130 units, FosRich Group ended trading of 9,000 shares with a loss of 15 cents at $3.60. General Accident traded 5 cents higher at $3.45, in exchanging 35,246 shares. Investors reacted negatively to Indies Pharma full year results with lower profits than for 2017 and sold the stock down by 25 cents, to end at $3.10, trading 1,411,221 shares. Jamaican Teas traded 17,740 shares with a loss of 10 cents to close at $4.40, Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 1 cent at $3.03, with 133,058 shares changing hands, Key Insurance ended trading of 100 stock units at 10 cents higher to $3.20, Knutsford Express finished trading of 100,187 shares with a loss of 1 cent at $12. Lasco Distributors closed 20 cents higher at $4, with an exchange of 14,700 shares, Lasco Financial ended 10 cents higher at $4.30, with the trading of 371,892 shares, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading 18 cents higher at $3.98, with 21,195 stock units, Main Event finished at $6.98, trading 200 units and Medical Disposables settled at $7, with 3,475 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Indies Pharma
$3.85, with 2,625 stock units changing hands, Indies Pharma lost 15 cents in trading of 92,764,938 shares at $3.10. Jamaican Teas finished 20 cents higher at $4.20, with an exchange of 85,640 shares, Jetcon Corporation jumped 74 cents to $3.34, with 9,500 shares trading, Key Insurance ended trading 20,095 stock units, with a loss of 90 cents to close at $3.10, KLE Group traded 51,833 units at $3, Knutsford Express finished trading at $12.50, with 447 shares. Lasco Distributors closed 10 cents higher at $3.99, in trading 21,600 shares. Lasco Financial ended with a loss of 10 cents at $4.50, with 51,011 shares changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading with 23,925 stock units with a loss of 29 cents at $3.70, Main Event finished 1 cent higher at $6.98, with 860 units changing hands and Stationery and Office traded 12,643 shares at $8.10. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% closed at $1.16, in trading 100 shares.
While Junior Market stocks on the Jamaica Stock Exchange chalked up gains of just 18.8 percent overall for 2018, but 5 companies’ stock rose between 104 to 282 percent for the year.
in the top 10 for two consecutive years. Caribbean Flavours landed the 6th spot with a gain of 73 percent. Statinery & Office Supplies reappeared in the Top 10 with a rise of 69 percent. ISP Financial chipped in with a rise of 67 percent in 8th spot to be followed by the Montego Bay based, Cargo Handlers that chipped in with 50 percent and the early 2018 listed Elite Diagnostic, was tenth after rising 48 percent.
reflected the losses caused by the toilet tissue operations with a decline in the stock price by 37 percent as it followed tTech with a decline of 33 percent. Eppley that migrated to the main market on the last day of 2018, declined 24 percent to the 6th worse performer, while Lasco Financial lost altitude to close out 2018 as the 7th worse performing the Junior Market stock, with a loss of 15 percent, just ahead of Knutsford Express at the 8th spot, with a fall of 13 percent, Sweat River fell 9 percent and Consolidated Bakeries ended at the 10th spot with a loss of 6 percent.
The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Index rose by a strong 64.45 points to close at 3,246.84, a rise of 18.8 percent above the close of 2017 as 5 stocks gained over 100 percent and 4 others gained between 50 to 73 percent for the year. 
trading of 110,629 shares at $1.60. Iron Rock ended with a loss of 10 cents at $4.90, with 100 units changing hands, Indies Pharma rose 10 cents in trading 70,468 shares to close at $3.20, Jamaican Teas finished 50 cents higher at $4.50, in exchanging 2,000 shares, Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 41 cents at $3.04, with 82,400 shares changing hands. KLE Group traded 16,000 units with a loss of 20 cents to close at $3.20. Knutsford Express finished trading 1,500 shares and rose $1.20 to $13, Lasco Distributors closed at $3.99, with 135,566 shares being exchanged, Lasco Financial ended at $4.50, trading 46,204 shares, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading 25 cents higher at $3.70, with 36,612 stock units. Main Event finished $1.10 higher at $7, with 4,700 units changing hands, Medical Disposables settled at $6.50, with 5,579 shares and Stationery and Office traded 25 cents higher at $8.35, with 1,950 shares changing hands.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange remained subdued on Friday, with trading with 21 securities changing hands, down from 27 securities that trading on Thursday. 
higher at $3.90, with an exchange of 3,100 units, Indies Pharma lost 10 cents in trading 21,209 shares to close at $3.10, Jamaican Teas settled with a loss of 70 cents at $4, trading 29,126 shares. Jetcon Corporation ended trading with 172,189 stock units, and rose 5 cents to $3.45, Key Insurance traded 14,000 units at $4, Lasco Distributors ended at $3.99, with 9,700 shares trading, Lasco Financial concluded trading at $4.50, with 19,325 stock units, Lasco Manufacturing finished at $3.45, with an exchange of 11,100 units. Main Event settled at $5.90, with 45,484 shares trading and Stationery and Office finished trading at $8.10, with 23,400 stock units changing hands.
236,096 units at a value of $1,536,039, versus 143,367 units at a value of $463,182, previously. November, ended with an average of 190,475 units valued at $653,358 for each security traded.
as 20,074 stock units changed hands. Everything Fresh traded 292,113 shares after declining by 2 cents to close at an all-time low of $1.28, Express Catering ended trading with 11,808 shares, 30 cents higher at $8, FosRich Group traded 1,500 shares at $3.80, Honey Bun ended with a loss of 30 cents at $3.50, exchanging 1,610 units, Indies Pharma traded 23,980 shares and lost 3 cents to close at $3.13, Jetcon Corporation ended trading of 20,400 stock units with a loss of 25 cents to end at $3.15. Key Insurance traded 182 units with a loss of 95 cents at $4, Knutsford Express closed with a loss of 90 cents at $10.60, in exchanging 16,856,182 shares, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 10 cents at $3.80, with 6,200 shares trading, Lasco Manufacturing fell 4 cents to close at $3.12, with 12,908 units being exchanged, Main Event settled at $6, in trading 9,410 shares and tTech ended at $5.19, with 1,000 shares changing hands.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange traded on Friday with 26 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 4,790,864 units valued at $10,989,252 compared to 4,094,002 units valued at $9,912,290 on Thursday.
loss of 60 cents at $3.80, in exchanging 246,589 shares, 
Two big blocks of shares traded on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday, as 23 securities changed hands, resulting in an exchange of 37,359,775 units valued at $87,094,646, leading to a 3 to 1 dominance of declining to advancing stocks. 
amounts to units 187,380 units valued at $640,878 and previously 97,570 units valued at $444,262. October, ended with an average of 69,421 units valued at $347,455 for each security traded.
loss of 70 cents at $4, while exchanging 5,000 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended trading with a loss of 1 cent at $3.79, with 25,695 stock units changing hands. Key Insurance lost 15 cents in closing at $3.25, with an exchange of 12,070,405 units, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 15 cents at $3.80, with 222,000 shares changing hands, 
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Wednesday with 25 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 611,280 units valued at $3,301,546 compared to 864,036 units valued at $3,263,089 on Tuesday from 20 securities.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed $2 higher at $52, with 20,293 shares trading, Blue Power concluded trading of 1,200 units and rose 65 cents to $5.45, CAC 2000 finished with a loss of 1 cent at $16, trading 2,062 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading 92 cents higher at $6, with 4,065 shares, Caribbean Flavours traded with a loss of 50 cents at $19.50, in exchanging 1,100 stock units. Caribbean Producers finished trading of 24,271 units and lost 4 cents at $5.51, Consolidated Bakeries closed 30 cents higher at $2.30, trading 4,331 shares, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 15 cents at $2.55, with 50,230 shares changing hands, Dolphin Cove concluded trading of 2,270 shares with a loss of 30 cents to close at $16. Elite Diagnostic finished 18 cents higher at $3.18, in exchanging 15,500 stock units, Everything Fresh fell 1 cent in trading a mere 2,500 shares to close at $1.77, Express Catering ended trading 2,500 shares at $7.50, FosRich Group traded 46,985 shares, with a loss of 1 cent at $3.84, Honey Bun ended at $4.11, trading 44,400 units. Indies Pharma traded 179,065 shares and fell 7 cents in closing at $2.93, Jamaican Teas settled 8 cents higher at $4.38, while trading 
1,000 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended trading 500 stock units at $3.80, KLE Group finished trading of 16,639 shares at $4, 
security traded.
exchanging 560 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended trading 12,500 stock units at $3.80,