In trading on the Junior Market Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday, FosRich finally traded after listing on Tuesday, while GWest listed on Thursday and rose to $2.87 from its IPO price of $2.50.
At the close of market activities, the prices of 6 securities advanced, 5 declined and 6 remained unchanged. The Junior Market Index advanced by 36.88 points to close at 2,740.63 with the two new listing contributing to the gain.
Trading on concluded with 16 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 1,516,632 units valued at $6,748,760 compared to just 393,186 units valued at $1,610,823 on Wednesday from 11 securities.
Trading ended with an average of 89,214 units for an average of $399,986 in contrast to 35,744 units for an average of $146,438 on Wednesday. 
The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 568,154 units valued at $2,642,716 and previously, 600,336 units valued at $2,793,615. In contrast, November closed with average of 107,477 units valued at $545,989 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Cargo Handlers ended trading 3 cents higher at $10.90, with 40,888 stock units, Caribbean Producers closed 20 cents higher at $4, with 322,112 shares, Eppley settled with a loss of 25 cents at $11.75, with 1,100 shares, Express Catering ended trading at $4.30, with 4,900 stock units, FosRich Group traded 16,000 shares at $2.99 up 99 cents from $2 at the IPO, General Accident traded 25 cents higher at $3, with 500,000 units.
GWest Corporation traded for the first time and ended at $2.87 with a gain of 37 cents from the IPO price of $2.50. Honey Bun finished trading with a loss of 50 cents at $4, with 11,850 shares, Knutsford Express traded 80 cents higher at $14.80, with 23,359 units, Lasco Distributors finished trading at $3.99, with 2,200 shares, Lasco Financial closed at $5.18, with 2,360 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended with a loss of 1 cent at $3.50, with 121,239 stock units, Main Event concluded trading at $5.30, with 296,246 units, Paramount Trading settled with a loss of 2 cents at $3, with 33,833 shares, Stationery and Office ended trading with a loss of 9 cents at $4.90, with 50,780 stock units and tTech finished trading at $5.18, with 86,765 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Shares of FosRich were listed on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Tuesday, after a successful IPO. Attempts were made to trade shares at $3 and $4 but the prices exceeded the 30 percent daily limit, permitted by the exchange. 
The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 625,999 units valued at $2,913,941 and previously, 681,693 units valued at $3,088,628. In contrast, November closed with average of 107,477 units valued at $545,989 for each security traded.
Honey Bun finished trading 50 cents higher at $4.50, with 24,475 shares, Jamaican Teas concluded trading 35 cents higher at $4, with 3,559 units. Jetcon Corporation gained 10 cents to $4.40, with 148,000 shares, Knutsford Express traded with a loss of 50 cents at $14, with 365 units, Lasco Distributors lost 5 cents to end at $3.85, with 789,740 shares, Lasco Financial closed with a loss of 10 cents at $5, with 204,857 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended 5 cents higher at $3.65, with 64,240 stock units, Main Event concluded trading 2 cents higher at $5.30, with 1,356 units, Medical Disposables finished at $5, with 16,033 shares, Stationery and Office ended trading 5 cents higher at $4.85, with 89,188 stock units. Sweet River traded at $3.85, with 2,265 units and tTech finished trading with a loss of 18 cents to close t 52 weeks’ low of $5.18, with 3,283 shares trading.
The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange gained moderately on Friday, with the market index rising 27.01 points to close at 2,698.27 with less half the listings trading, as the prices of 9 securities advanced, 2 declined and 3 remained unchanged.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Honey Bun finished trading 1 cent higher at $4, with 76,200 shares, Jamaican Teas concluded trading with a loss of 10 cents at $3.60, with 79,443 units, Knutsford Express traded 5 cents higher at $14.80, with 1,700 units. Lasco Distributors finished trading 49 cents higher at $4.60, with 125,103 shares, Lasco Financial closed 6 cents higher at $4.81, with 17,206 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended 25 cents higher at $3.55, with 12,000 stock units, Paramount Trading settled 10 cents higher at $2.98, with 70,000 shares and Stationery and Office ended trading at $4.80, with 37,000 stock units.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Express Catering ended trading 8 cents higher at $4.28, with 5,189 stock units, General Accident traded with a loss of 38 cents at $3, with 10,335 units, Honey Bun finished trading at $3.99, with 1,516 shares, Jamaican Teas lost 17 cents to close at $3.33, with 229,800 units. Jetcon Corporation finished with a loss of 40 cents at $4.30, with 1,063,400 shares, Knutsford Express traded with a loss of 5 cents at $14.75, with 5,530 units, Lasco Distributors finished trading 10 cents higher at $4.35, with 516,274 shares, Lasco Financial closed with a loss of 65 cents at $4.75, with 43,798 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended with a loss of 7 cents at $3.45, with 14,461 stock units, Main Event concluded trading at $5.09, with 169,788 units and Stationery and Office ended trading at $4.80, with 72,226 stock units.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
KLE Group ended trading with a loss of 45 cents at $2.08, with 50,000 stock units. Knutsford Express traded 65 cents higher at $14.80, with 42,431 units, Lasco Distributors finished trading 5 cents higher at $4.25, with 39,023 shares, Lasco Financial closed 65 cents higher at $5.40, with 5,000 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended 22 cents higher at $3.52, with 5,800 stock units. Main Event concluded trading at $5.09, with 15,919 units, Paramount Trading settled with a loss of 38 cents at $2.70, with 48,940 shares, Stationery and Office ended trading at $4.80, with 100,741 stock units, Sweet River traded with a loss of 1 cent at $3.85, with 1,064 units and tTech finished trading at $5.50, with 5,000 shares.
The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange lost grounds on Friday with the market index falling 38.51 points to close at 2,618.68 as the prices of 3 securities advanced, 2 declined and 9 remained unchanged on a day of modest trading. 
Trading ended with an average of 50,895 units for an average of $242,437 in contrast to 40,317 units for an average of $209,022 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to units 129,298 valued at $491,038 and previously 99,196 valued at $394,709. In contrast, November closed with average of 107,477 units valued at $545,989 for each security traded.
Jetcon Corporation finished at $4.40, with 16,827 shares, Key Insurance settled at $3.50, with 4,000 shares, Lasco Distributors finished trading 80 cents higher at $5, with 23,000 shares, Lasco Financial closed at $4.65, with 438,833 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended at $3.70, with 13,470 stock units, Medical Disposables finished at $5.05, with 300 shares, Paramount Trading settled 1 cent higher at $3.08, with 2,500 shares, Stationery and Office ended trading at $4.80, with 130,150 stock units and tTech finished trading with a loss of 50 cents at $5.50, with 10,000 shares.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Lasco Distributors finished trading with a loss of 41 cents to end at a 52 weeks’ closing low of $3.99, with 217,007 shares changing hands, after it traded at an intraday low of $3.77, Lasco Financial closed at $4.90, with 9,895 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended at $3.50, with 5,200 stock units, Main Event concluded trading with a loss of 34 cents at $5.66, with 9,961 units. Medical Disposables finished at $4.95, with 204,000 shares, Paramount Trading settled with a loss of 9 cents at $3, with 100 shares and Stationery and Office ended trading at $5, with 233,150 stock units changing hands.
Trading on the Junior Market on Monday saw the Index advancing 36.34 points to close at 2,725.07 to break the losing streak of last week 22 securities changing hands resulting in the prices of 8 securities advanced, 9 declined and 5 remained unchanged. 
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed with a jump of $6.30 to end at $40.30, with 2,000 shares trading, AMG Packaging fell 9 cents to $2.90, with 12,202 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading with a loss of 5 cents at $36.95, with 1,124 units, Caribbean Cream finished 1 cent higher at $5.50, with 11,500 shares, Caribbean Flavours settled at $11, with 22,805 shares, Caribbean Producers traded 14,000 units at $4.20. Consolidated Bakeries finished 10 cents higher at $1.90, with 7,000 shares, Express Catering ended 1 cent higher at $4.01, with 173,916 stock units, Eppley concluded trading at $10, with 1,600 units, General Accident finished 20 cents higher at $2.70, with 135,510 shares, Honey Bun settled with a loss of 5 cents at $3.85, with 1,000 shares. Jamaican Teas traded 10 cents higher at $3.90, with 20,000 units, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 15 cents higher at $4.50, with 21,500 shares, Key Insurance ended with a loss of 19 cents at $3.80, with 1,052,631 stock units, Lasco Distributors settled with a loss of 5 cents at $4.35, with 161,720 shares, 
Lasco Financial ended trading with a loss of 15 cents at $5, with 280,086 stock units, Lasco Manufacturing traded at $3.50, with 76,003 units, Medical Disposables finished trading with a loss of 10 cents at $4.95, with 1,722 shares. Paramount Trading concluded trading at $3.09, with 3,550,825 units, Stationery and Office ended trading with a loss of 5 cents at $5, with 41,723 stock units and tTech finished trading with a loss of $1 at $6, with 5,000 shares. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading preference shares ended with 9,798 units changing hands with a gain of 15 cent at $2.15.
The number of Junior Market securities trading on Friday, jumped to 24, from just 13 changing hands on Thursday, resulting in an exchange of 1,300,855 units valued at $5,472,573 compared to 1,784,331 units valued at $8,037,129 on Thursday.
Knutsford Express closed 98 cents higher at $14.80, with 600 shares, Key Insurance ended 31 cents higher at $3.99, with 1,000 stock units. KLE Group concluded trading at $2.53, with 10,400 units, Lasco Distributors settled with a loss of 10 cents at $4.40, with 23,152 shares, Lasco Financial ended trading 10 cents higher at $5.15, with 349,824 stock units, Lasco Manufacturing traded with a loss of 40 cents at $3.50, with 45,500 units. Medical Disposables finished trading 10 cents higher at $5.05, with 1,200 shares, Main Event closed at $6, with 176,732 shares, Paramount Trading concluded trading with a loss of 1 cent at $3.09, with 32,705 units and Stationery and Office ended trading at $5.05, with 80,777 stock units.
Securities participating in trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange dropped sharply on Thursday with 13 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 1,784,331 units valued at $8,037,129 compared to 933,174 units valued at $3,918,550 on Wednesday from 24 securities. 
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 8 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 8 with lower offers.
Knutsford Express closed with a loss of 18 cents at $13.82, with 6,270 shares, Lasco Distributors settled 10 cents higher at $4.50, with 172,970 shares, Lasco Financial ended trading at $5.05, with 18,978 stock units. Lasco Manufacturing traded 205,296 stock units and gained 40 cents in closing at $3.90, Main Event closed at $6, with 177,822 shares changing hands, Paramount Trading concluded market activity with a loss of 30 cents to end at $3.10, with 2,000 units and Stationery and Office ended trading at $5.05, with 234,523 stock units.