ISP Finance traded at a new high of $6 on Friday
The Junior market closed on Friday with a fall of just 4.13 points in the market index, to close at 2,176.88 as the market continues in consolidation mood but as Cargo Handlers jumped $5.99 to a new high of $82, with 915 shares changing hands, to record gains of 116 percent for the year to date. ISP Finance jumped 78 cents and gained 200 percent since listing in March, to close at a new high of $6 while trading 22,082 shares.
At the end of trading only 7 stock rose up from 1 on Thursday and 3 declined down from 8 on Thursday out of 15 securities that traded on Friday.
The market closed with 1,387,475 units trading, 76 percent less than on Thursday, valued 60 percent less than on Thursday with $6,454,746 changing hands on Friday. Trading ended with 8 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 ending with lower offers.At the close, AMG Packaging closed with a gain of 14 cents at $13.70 with 1,750 units changing hands, Blue Power closed with 1,789 units changing hands at $20, Caribbean Cream closed with 92,693 shares changing hands and rose 24 cents to $7.25, after trading as high as $7.95. Caribbean Producers had 187,080 units changing hands, to close with a rise of 3 cents, at $3, Consolidated Bakeries traded 16,455 shares to close at $2.20.
Dolphin Cove traded 2,105 units at $15 after falling 20 cents, Honey Bun closed with 26,817 shares changing hands at $5.30, Knutsford Express traded 33,650 shares to close at $25, Lasco Distributors fell 20 cents to end with 24,854 shares changing hands at $6.70, Lasco Financial ended with 552,729 shares changing hands at $3.50, after rising 15 cents. Lasco Manufacturing lost 16 cents and closed at $4.41 with 409,706 shares trading, Medical Disposables traded 12,130 shares with the price gaining 35 cents to close at $3.55 and Sweet River had 2,000 shares trading to end at $3.85.
Trading activity on the Trinidad and Tobago stock market closed Thursday with marginal fall in the two main indices. The volume traded remained subdued with just over 100,000 units changing hands. At the close 13 securities changed hands, 2 of which rose, 5 declined and 6 remained unchanged. 
One Caribbean Media traded 200 shares to end with a loss of 5 cents at a 52 weeks’ low of $20.75, Sagicor Financial Corporation fell 25 cents to close with 46,021 shares changing hands at $6.50 and Trinidad Cement fell by 1 cent and closed at $3.04 with 6,100 shares changing hands.
Jamaica Stock Exchange main indices lost ground as Carreras traded 1,047,855 units and fell 51 cents to $65 and Scotia Group gained 40 cents with 202,938 units changing hands at $30.40 as the leading trades. 
Trading activity on the Trinidad and Tobago stock market closed Thursday with marginal fall in the two main indices. The volume traded remained subdued with just over 100,000 units changing hands. At the close just 9 securities changed hands, 1 of which rose, 1 declined and 7 remained unchanged. 
Firm Trades| Angostura Holdings ended with 40,633 shares with a value of $568,862, changing hands to close at $14, Clico Investment Fund closed with 2,237 shares changing hands to end at $22.66, JMMB Group had 1,000 shares changing hands at 64 cents. Prestige Holdings had 32 units changing hands, to close at $10.80, Republic Financial Holdings ended with 3,676 shares with a value of $404,355 changing hands at $110, Sagicor Financial Corporation closed with 479 shares changing hands at $6.75 and Trinidad Cement closed at $3.05 with 50,020 shares changing hands.
At the close of the market prices of 11 securities gained out of a total of 39 that traded, with 18 declining in the overall market, including only 1 stock rising and 8 falling, in the junior market.
Kingston Wharves traded 97,624 shares to close at $17.01, Margaritaville Turks traded 237,000 shares to close at 20 US cents after falling by a cent, Mayberry Investments ended with 10,500 shares trading to close at $3.28, 
Trading ended with 7 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 ending with lower offers.
Honey Bun declined by 50 cents with 4,500 shares changing hands, to close at $5.30, 
Price movement on the Jamaica Stock Exchange picked on Wednesday with the all Jamaica Composite Index climbing more than 800 points over the close on Tuesday and 632.54 points more than at the end of July. A total of 2,531,618 units valued at $31,698,751, up from $27,344,934 on Tuesday, changed hands. Of the stocks trading in all market segments, the junior market accounted for 1,201,093 units valued at $5,410,798.
all Jamaica Composite Index rose 847.60 points to close at 178,203.70 and the JSE combined index moved up 870.87 points, to end at 171,517.24 as the junior market gained strongly, thus negating some of the main market fall.
Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with 18,034 units changing hands to close at $21.50, the announcement of a stock split could change investors’ perception of the stock when trading resumes on Thursday.
Trading ended with 10 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 ending with lower offers.
Jamaican Teas lost 40 cents while trading 33,000 shares to close at $3.20, 
In early morning trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, the main market rose moderately but the junior market fell moderately. 
dropped 60 cents to a 52 weeks’ low of $11 with 100 units changing hands and Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed at $23.75 with 1,400 units changing hands after falling 1 cent.
