Junior market volume contracting as selling volume decline.
At the close of market activities,18 securities changed hands, resulting in an exchange of just 737,126 units valued at $3,562,822 compared to only 1,131,911 units valued $4,659,737, from 23 securities changing hands on Tuesday. C2W Music traded at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, as was the case at the close on Thursday signs continue to be good for a continuation of gains when trading resumes, with a very positive Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading of 8 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Trading closed with an average of just 40,951 units for an average of $197,935 in contrast to 49,214 units for an average of $202,597 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 172,947 units valued at $702,449 and previously, 179,299 units valued at $726,731. Trading in June, ended with an average of 139,543 units, valued at $671,002 for each security traded.
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 172,947 units valued at $702,449 and previously, 179,299 units valued at $726,731. Trading in June, ended with an average of 139,543 units, valued at $671,002 for each security traded.At the close of trading, Access Financial closed in trading 550 shares at $46.70, Caribbean Cream ended trading with a loss of 99 cents at $5.50, with 25,461 units, C2W Music ended 50 cents higher at a 52 weeks’ high of $2, with 10,200 shares, Derrimon Trading concluded trading at $21, with 27,855 stock units, Dolphin Cove climbed $1 higher at $17, trading 2,800 shares. Elite Diagnostic settled at $2.80, with 51,331 units being traded, Everything Fresh traded 106,055 shares and gained 5 cents to end at $2.
Express Catering traded 123,443 units and gained 30 cents to end at $7.80, FosRich Group finished trading with a loss of 16 cents at $2.55, exchanging 35,905 shares,
General Accident closed at $3.10, with 200,000 stock units changing hands. Honey Bun concluded trading 1,005 shares and rose 5 cents to $4.70, ISP Finance settled at $16 after $1 with 5,597 shares trading, Jamaican Teas ended trading 13,938 stock units at $5, Jetcon Corporation traded 31,940 units at $4.10. Lasco Distributors gained 5 cents to close at $4, in exchanging 58,355 stock units, Lasco Financial close with 6,069 units trading and rose 20 cents to end at $5.20, Lasco Manufacturing settled at $4, exchanging 36,120 shares and Stationery and Office closed 55 cents higher at $8.50, with 502 units changing hands.Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
The Junior Market closed trading on Tuesday with 23 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of just 1,131,911 units valued $4,659,737, compared to 363,861 shares valued $1,682,885, from 24 securities changing hands on Monday. 
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 179,299 units valued at $726,731 and previously 187,823 units valued at $761,076. Trading in June, ended with an average of 139,543 units, valued at $671,002 for each security traded.
General Accident closed 5 cents higher at $3.10, with 19,696 stock units changing hands, GWest Corporation ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.40, trading 244,676 units, Honey Bun concluded trading 13 cents higher at $4.65, exchanging 74,653 shares. Iron Rock finished at $3.10, with 27,100 shares, Jamaican Teas ended with a loss of 29 cents at $5, trading 17,659 stock units, Jetcon Corporation closed at $4.10, trading 2,500 units, Knutsford Express ended with a loss of 40 cents at $11.60, with 3,394 shares changing hands. Lasco Distributors concluded trading 45,118 stock units and rose 3 cents to $3.95, Lasco Financial finished exchanging 206,700 units at $5, Lasco Manufacturing settled at $4, trading 5,880 shares, Stationery and Office closed with a loss of 4 cents at $7.95, with 3,692 units and tTech concluded trading 8 cents higher at $5.40, with 19,023 shares changing hands.
The Junior Market closed trading on Monday with 24 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of just 363,861 shares valued $1,682,885, compared to 780,012 units valued at $3,632,523, from 26 securities changing hands on Friday.
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 187,823 units valued at $761,076 and previously 200,496 units valued at $811,788. Trading in June, ended with an average of 139,543 units, valued at $671,002 for each security traded.
GWest Corporation ended at $2.41, with 12,076 units, Jamaican Teas ended trading 10,000 stock units at $5.29. Jetcon Corporation traded 5,442 units and lost 5 cents at $4.10, KLE Group gained 5 cents to $2.90, with 10,000 shares, Knutsford Express ended at $12, with 200 shares, Lasco Distributors concluded trading with a loss of 28 cents at $3.92, with 16,098 stock units. Lasco Financial finished trading 39,963 units at $5, Lasco Manufacturing settled at $4, while exchanging 34,250 shares, Medical Disposables traded with a loss of 23 cents at $5.02, with 23,000 shares, Paramount Trading finished trading 10,000 stock units with a rise of 2 cents to end at $3 and Stationery and Office closed 2 cents higher at $7.99, with 58,459 units trading. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley closed at $6, with 17,250 shares changing hands.
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 200,496 units valued at $811,788 and previously 232,964 units valued at $869,841. June closed with an average of 139,543 units, valued at $671,002 for each security traded.
FosRich Group finished trading with 49,576 shares at a loss of 24 cents to $2.71, General Accident closed 2 cents higher at $3.05, after 3,835 stock units crossed the exchange platform, GWest Corporation ended 1 cent higher at $2.41, with 20,000 units. Honey Bun concluded trading with 39,515 shares and rose 1 cent to $4.52, Jamaican Teas ended trading with a loss of 1 cent at $5.29, with 1,790 stock units, Jetcon Corporation traded 12,747 units with a loss of 13 cents at $4.15, Knutsford Express ended 49 cents higher at $12, trading 2,685 shares. Lasco Distributors rose 20 cents to $4.20, with 37,200 stock units trading, Lasco Financial finished at $5, with 38,577 units, Lasco Manufacturing settled 15 cents higher at $4, in exchanging 4,068 shares, Main Event ended trading 1,240 shares, gaining 55 cents to $7.65, Medical Disposables traded 5 cents higher at $5.25, with 20,000 shares, Paramount Trading closed at $2.98, with 12,235 stock units, Stationery and Office closed with a loss of 10 cents at $7.97, as 35,280 units changed ownership and tTech concluded trading with a loss of 18 cents at $5.32, after 36,965 shares changing hands.
The Junior Market Index climbed 19.37 points to close at 3,040.35 on Thursday, breaking three unbroken days of decline to Wednesday. 
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2, trading 855 stock units, Caribbean Flavours traded 9 cents higher at $11.69, with 14,645 stock units changing hands, Caribbean Producers traded 2,746 units at $5.36, Consolidated Bakeries closed at $2, in exchanging 48,713 shares, Derrimon Trading concluded trading $2.90 higher at $22.90, with 30,366 shares. Elite Diagnostic settled at $2.95, with 37,206 units, Eppley climbed $2 to $10, trading 4,000 shares, Express Catering traded 55,414 shares at $7.30, FosRich Group exchanged 104,100 shares and rose 35 cents to $2.95. General Accident closed with a loss of 2 cents at $3.03, after 29,410 stock units traded, Honey Bun concluded trading with a loss of 51 cents at $4.51, with 76,640 shares, Jamaican Teas ended trading 3,800 stock units at $5.30, Jetcon Corporation traded 28 cents higher at $4.28, with 1,454,186 units. 
Knutsford Express ended 1 cent higher at $11.51, in an exchange of 16,510 shares, Lasco Distributors concluded trading with a loss of 20 cents at $4, in exchanging 72,070 stock units, Lasco Financial finished 10 cents higher at $5, with 80,609 units, Lasco Manufacturing settled at $3.85, with 24,731 shares. Main Event ended trading 25 cents higher at $7.10, with 10,182 shares, Medical Disposables traded 13 cents higher at $5.20, with 16,442 shares and Stationery and Office closed 7 cents higher at $8.07 trading 8,890 units. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley 8.25% concluded trading 11 cents higher at $6.11, with 171,500 units changing hands.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange declined on Wednesday compared with Tuesday’s levels as only 20 securities trading and no company contributing a large trade as occurred on Tuesday.
Trading closed with an average of 75,617 units for an average of $351,554 in contrast to 169,865 units for an average of $808,100 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 223,946 units valued at $899,898 and previously 235,400 units valued at $942,241. June closed with an average of 139,543 units, valued at $671,002 for each security traded.
Jetcon Corporation traded with a loss of 10 cents at $4, exchanging 35,000 units, KLE Group closed at $2.85, with 550 shares changing hands, Knutsford Express ended at $11.50, with 1,158 shares, Lasco Distributors closed 20 cents higher at $4.20, trading 825,000 stock units. Lasco Financial finished with a loss of 20 cents at $4.90, after exchanging 50,000 units, Lasco Manufacturing settled with a loss of 5 cents at $3.85, with 17,000 shares, Medical Disposables traded 7 cents higher at $5.07, with 423,467 shares being exchanged, Paramount Trading finished trading 3,105 stock units at $2.98 and Stationery and Office closed with a loss of 10 cents at $8, after trading 50,073 units. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley 9.5% preference share ended trading at $6, with 8,641 shares changing hands.
At the close of the market the prices of 5 securities rose, 11 declined and 5 traded unchanged leading to the market Index declining 6.18 points to close at 3,029.94.
Jamaican Teas ended trading at $5.30, with 31,320 stock units. KLE Group closed with a loss of 5 cents at $2.85, after 5,000 shares trading, Knutsford Express ended at $11.50, with 2,500 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors concluded trading at $4, with 29,809 stock units, Lasco Financial rose 7 cents to $5.10, in the trading of 2,755,556 units. Lasco Manufacturing settled with 64,732 shares trading at $3.90, Main Event ended trading with a rise of 3 cents to $6.85, in exchanging 12,220 shares, Medical Disposables traded 1 cent higher at $5, with 27,389 shares, Paramount Trading finished trading 9,130 stock units at $2.98, Stationery and Office closed at $8.10, with 16,666 units and tTech concluded trading with a loss of 40 cents at $5.50, after 2,392 shares were exchanged. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading 9% preference share ended at $2.50, with 18,308 units changing hands.
The prices of 12 securities rose, 11 declined and 5 traded unchanged, resulting from 28 securities changing hands on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday, compared to 20 trading on Friday. 
At the close of trading, Blue Power closed at $40, with 1,345 shares changing hands, CAC 2000 concluded trading with a loss of 1 cent at $9, with 7,782 units, Cargo Handlers finished with a loss of 15 cents at $9.50, with 830 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cream settled with a loss of 50 cents at $5.75, trading 3,100 shares, Caribbean Flavours ended trading 7 cents higher at $11.67, with just 368 shares changing hands, Caribbean Producers traded 27,442 stock units and rose 5 cents to $5.35. Consolidated Bakeries closed 1 cent higher at $2.01, with 3,000 units, C2W Music ended 10 cents higher at 52 weeks’ closing high of $1.65, with 33,143 shares, Derrimon Trading closed with a loss of 3 cents at $20, with 18,000 shares, Elite Diagnostic fell 4 cents to end at $2.96, with 7,000 stock units. Everything Fresh gained 8 cents and closed at $2.10 after 83,788 units changed hands, Express Catering ended trading with a loss of 20 cents at $7.30, in exchanging 17,324 shares, FosRich Group traded 14 cents higher at $2.71, with 387,471 shares, General Accident finished trading 10,447 shares and rose 5 cents to $3.05, GWest Corporation closed 5 cents higher at $2.40, with 15,000 stock units. Honey Bun traded 19,729 units to end at $5, Jamaican Teas settled 15 cents higher at $5.30, with 293 shares, 
Jetcon Corporation traded 6,163 stock units and ended at $4.10, Key Insurance traded 1 cent higher at $3.02, with 300 units. Knutsford Express closed at $11.50, after 1,800 shares traded, Lasco Distributors ended 9 cents higher at $4, with 244,516 shares, Lasco Financial concluded trading with a loss of 18 cents at $5.03, exchanging 60,982 stock units, Lasco Manufacturing lost 30 cents to end at $3.90, with 19,000 units. Main Event settled with a loss of 18 cents at $6.82, after trading 19,897 shares, Medical Disposables ended trading 125,156 shares with a loss of 1 cent to close $4.99, Stationery and Office Supplies closed 5 cents higher at $8.10, with 4,385 stock units and Sweet River closed with a loss of 10 cents at $3.70, with 198 units. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading concluded trading at $2.50 with 1,400 units changing hands.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday closed with 806,470 units valued at $3,015,197 changing hands, compared to 9,971,398 units valued at $49,004,441 on Thursday. 
KLE Group closed at $2.90, trading 86,300 shares, Knutsford Express ended at $11.50, with 660 shares changing hands. Lasco Distributors concluded trading with a loss of 20 cents at $3.91, exchanging 13,718 stock units, Lasco Financial finished 1 cent higher at $5.21, with 15,560 units, Lasco Manufacturing gained 20 cents and ended at $4.20, with 185,000 shares, Main Event ended trading and rose 18 cents to $7, with 9,938 shares, Stationery and Office closed 5 cents higher at $8.05, with 6,170 units and tTech concluded trading 40 cents higher at $5.90, with 2,072 shares changing hands.
Trading rose sharply on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday as trading Honey Bun and Medical Disposables shares accounted for 9 million units of the nearly 10 million units to trade. 
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 291,975 units valued at $1,155,537 and previously 270,856 units valued at $1,015,164. June closed with an average of 139,543 units, valued at $671,002 for each security traded.
Everything Fresh traded at a new low since listing at $1.95 in the exchange of 169,459 units, but closed unchanged for the day at $2.10, Express Catering traded 12 cents higher at $7.26, with 22,882 shares changing hands, FosRich Group fell 5 cents to end at $2.85, with 31,244 shares, GWest Corporation ended 5 cents higher at $2.35, with 29,782 units trading, Honey Bun rose 10 cents higher to $5, with 6,006,556 shares. Jamaican Teas traded 3,000 stock units at $5.15, Jetcon Corporation closed 10 cents higher at $4.20, with 104,265 units, Key Insurance traded 13,837 shares at $3.01, Lasco Distributors concluded trading at $4.11, with 9,782 stock units. Lasco Manufacturing settled with a loss of 20 cents at $4, exchanging 8,190 shares, Main Event g 2ained cents to close at $6.82, with 8,559 shares, Medical Disposables traded 3,353,631 shares at $5 and Paramount Trading finished trading with a loss of 2 cents at $2.98, with 41,020 stock units changing hands.
