Junior Market stock market trading.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed on Tuesday with more stocks falling with than rising as volume traded rose from Monday’s level.
At the close of trading 29 securities changed hands, similar to Monday and ending with the prices of 9 rising, 12 falling and 8 remaining unchanged.
The market Index jumped 57 points to close at 3,147.61 as 1,838,031 units valued $6,450,946 changed hands, compared to 1,283,687 units valued at $4,603,678 on Monday.
Trading ended with an average of 63,380 units for an average of $222,446 in contrast to 44,265 units for an average of $158,748 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to units 158,863 for an average of $666,815, previously, 164,896 for an average of $694,891. In contrast, May ended with an average of 81,626 units for $311,248 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with a lower offer.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging closed trading of 43,200 units and gained 1 cent to end at $2, Blue Power ended trading with 1,000 shares, after rising 30 cents to end at $4.75, Cargo Handlers rise $1.30 in trading 200 shares at $10.50, 
Caribbean Cream ended trading of 4,662 units at $5.27. Caribbean Producers closed trading of 58,622 units and gained 14 cents to end at $4.90, Consolidated Bakeries lost 23 cents trading 77,148 units to close at $1.77. Derrimon Trading at $2.59 with 57,558 stock units changing hands, Dolphin Cove traded 5,100 shares to end at $11.75, Elite Diagnostic exchanged 141 shares and declined by 3 cents to settle at $3.97, Everything Fresh exchanged 100,000 units at $1.40, Express Catering declined by 40 cents to settle at $6.75, with an exchange of 37,840 units. FosRich Group closed with a loss of 5 cents at $4.95, in the swapping of 6,208 shares, Fontana closed 11 cents higher at $4.51, with 171,655 stock units changing hands after the price hit an intraday all-time high of $4.96, GWest Corporation closed with 102,148 units changing hands at $1.02. General Accident lost 3 cents in trading of 17,684 units at $4.07. Honey Bun closed at $6.50 after hitting a new all-time high of $7.33 in trading 34,500 shares after dropping 50 cents, iCreate ended with a loss of 1 cent at to close at 79 cents with 201,050 stock units changing hand, 
Indies Pharma traded 79,119 shares, after rising 5 cents to end at $3.12. Jamaican Teas shed 35 cents in trading of 35,443 units to close at $4.35. Jetcon Corporation lost 2 cents in trading of 23,100 units at $1.85, Knutsford Express concluded trading of 14,883 shares at $12.50, Lasco Distributors shed 24 cents in trading of 339,755 units at 52 weeks’ low of $3.15, Lasco Financial dipped 15 cents in trading of 166,950 units to close at $4.50. Lasco Manufacturing hit a 52 weeks’ high of $4.50 but lost altitude by the close to finish trading 112,917 shares at $4.30, Main Event settled at $6.90 after 126,857 shares were traded, Medical Disposables climbed 30 cents and exchanged 1,000 shares at $7. Paramount Trading closed 42 cents higher at $2.45, with 5,800 stock units trading and Stationery and Office closed trading of 500 units and gained 30 cents to end at $9.90. In the junior market preference segment, CAC2000 preference share closed with a loss of 10 cents at $1, after swapping of 12,991 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
iCreate exchanged 100,200 shares, after rising 9 cents to end at 80 cents, Indies Pharma closed with a loss of 13 cents at $3.07, with an exchange of 173,410 shares, Jamaican Teas rose 15 cents to conclude trading of 9,540 shares at $4.70. Jetcon Corporation shed 3 cents in trading of 4,795 units at $1.87, Key Insurance closed 10 cents higher at $3.70, with 207 stock units changing hands, Knutsford Express fell $1.50 in concluding trading of 74,906 at $12.50, Lasco Distributors dipped 30 cents in trading of 74,906 units at $3.39. Lasco Financial declined 15 cents to settle at $4.65 and trading 42,255 shares, Lasco Manufacturing added 10 cents in closing trading at $4.30 with an exchange of 126,983 shares, Main Event settled $1 higher at $6.90 after 25,856 shares were traded. Medical Disposables lost 30 cents in trading of 1,500 units at $6.70 and Stationery and Office Supplies closed with 39,420 shares changing hands at $9.60.
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to units 173,031 for an average of $731,049, previously, 195,632 at $730,567. In contrast, May ended with an average of 81,626 units for $311,248 for each security traded.
General Accident exchanged 34,633 shares at $4.15. GWest Corporation traded 38,980 shares to end at $1.15, iCreate fell 9 cents in trading 577,519 units to close at 71 cents, Jamaican Teas finished trading 16,033 shares with a rise of 20 to $4.55, Jetcon Corporation closed with a loss of 10 cents at $1.90, in swapping 533 shares. Key Insurance ended trading with 7,000 shares, after rising 25 cents to $3.60, Knutsford Express exchanged 13,588 shares at $11, Lasco Distributors closed 9 cents higher at $3.69, with 185,348 stock units changing hands. Lasco Financial declined 60 cents to $4.80 in trading of 1,098,116 units and Lasco Manufacturing exchanged 1,801,604 shares, and rose 10 cents to end at $4.20. Medical Disposables closed trading of 45,260 units at $7, SSL Venture Capital ended market activity with 25,000 shares trading at $1.61 and Stationery and Office Supplies closed with 3,408 shares changing hands at $9.60.
Blue Power traded 34,108 shares at $4.50, CAC 2000 rose $1.24 in trading 345 shares to close at $14, Cargo Handlers ended trading with 1,100 shares, after rising 20 cents to end at $9.20. Caribbean Cream fell 39 cents to settle at $5.40 with an exchange of 13,700 shares, Caribbean Producers lost 15 cents trading 30,354 units at $4.75, Consolidated Bakeries closed trading of 117,929 units with a gain of 1 cent to end at $2. Derrimon Trading closed at $2.60 trading 64,000 shares, Dolphin Cove concluded trading of 1,230 shares with a rise of $1.25 to end at $11.75, Elite Diagnostic closed with a loss of 5 cents at $3.95, swapping of 21,074, shares, Everything Fresh traded 102,200 units to close at $1.47. Express Catering declined 10 cents to settle at $7 after exchanging 36,500 shares, FosRich Group dipped 15 cents in trading of 95,805 units at $4.85, Fontana closed 15 cents higher at $4.55, with 207,732 stock units trading, General Accident fell 5 cents in trading of 5,101,798 units at $4.15. GWest Corporation ended trading with 30,000 shares, after rising 9 cents to end at $1.15, Honey Bun closed trading of 98,562 units and gained 50 cents to end at record high of $7, iCreate climbed 1 cent and exchanged 105,757 shares in closing at 80 cents. Indies Pharma closed trading of 37,672 units after gaining 10 cents to end at $3.20, Iron Rock declined by 5 cents to settle at $3.50, in exchanging 41,210 shares, ISP Finance settled at $4.13 higher at $19.63 with just 398 units changing hands, Jamaican Teas closed trading of 21,000 units and gained 5 cents to end at $4.35. 
Jetcon Corporation closed trading of 155,708 units, rising 1 cent to end at $2. KLE Group exchanged 30,547 shares to close at $2.15, Knutsford Express closed trading of 3,478 units at $11, Lasco Distributors closed with a loss of 9 cents at $3.60 after swapping 52,667, shares. Lasco Financial ended trading with 73,387 shares, after rising 10 cents to end at $5.40, Lasco Manufacturing added 10 cents in exchanging 106,316 shares at $4.10, Main Event closed 40 cents higher at $5.90, with 170,410 stock units trading, Medical Disposables closed trading of 72,400 units at $7. Paramount Trading closed 3 cents higher at $2.03, trading 2,762 stock units, SSL Venture Capital ended trading with 1,542,184 shares, after rising 1 cent to end at $1.61, Stationery and Office ended trading of 40,567 shares, to end at $9.60 and tTech traded 300 shares, after rising 60 cents to end at $5.46.
Indies Pharma shed 20 cents in trading of 49,599 units at $3.10, Iron Rock closed at $3.55, trading 58,790 shares. Jamaican Teas lost 20 cents in trading of 59,159 units to close at $4.30, Jetcon Corporation climbed 4 cents and exchanged 4,800 shares at $1.99. Knutsford Express fell $1.50 in trading of 1,522 units at $11, Lasco Distributors ended trading of 5,754 shares, after rising 4 cents to end at $3.69, Lasco Financial rose 10 cents to end at $5.30, trading 6,289 shares, Lasco Manufacturing lost 1 cent to close at $4 with 143,555 stock units changing hands. Main Event climbed 5 cents while exchanging 12,566 shares at $5.50, Medical Disposables lost 50 cents trading of 37,743 units at $7 and Stationery and Office ended trading of 30,476 shares, after rising 10 cents to end at $9.60.
Jamaican Teas climbed 14 cents in exchanging 18,819 shares at $4.44, Jetcon Corporation declined 5 cents to settle at $2. KLE Group climbed 25 cents and exchanged 3,000 shares at $2.15, Knutsford Express settled at $12.50, while trading 1,585 shares, 
Iron Rock traded with 48,700 units and inched 1 cent higher to $3.51, ISP Finance exchanged 1,334 shares at $15, Jamaican Teas closed with a loss of 10 cents at $4.30, with an exchange of 61,774 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended with a loss of 4 cents at $2.05, with 28,133 shares changing hands. Knutsford Express settled at $12.50, in trading 1,000 shares, Lasco Distributors ended trading of 50,158 shares, with a loss of 4 cents at $3.65, Lasco Financial closed with a gain of 1 cent at $5.21, with an exchange of 258,493 shares, Lasco Manufacturing finished trading of 40,805 stock units with a loss of 4 cents at $4.02. Main Event closed with a loss of 9 cents at $5.31, while trading 21,058 units, Medical Disposables ended 30 cents higher at $7.80, with 6,490 shares changing hands, Paramount Trading concluded trading of 20,100 shares, at $2. SSL Venture Capital exchanged 200 shares and ended 15 cents higher, to close at $1.65, Stationery and Office settled 10 cents higher at $9.50, with 756 stock units trading and tTech traded 4,456 shares at $5.30.
Cargo Handlers rose 2 cents to close at $9.52, with 1,500 shares crossing the exchange, Caribbean Cream ended trading 13,900 shares, at $5.27. Caribbean Flavours traded 96,000 stock units and lost $1.70 to close at $14.30, Caribbean Producers ended 5 cents higher at $4.85, with an exchange of 32,000 units, Consolidated Bakeries closed at $1.80, while trading 11,316 shares, Derrimon Trading ended 3 cents higher at $2.80, with after exchanging 17,300 stock units. Everything Fresh settled with a loss of 1 cent at $1.58, with an exchange of 49,729 units, Elite Diagnostic ended trading of 45,925 shares with a loss of 9 cents at $3.76, Express Catering traded 7,059 shares and rose 1 cent to $7, FosRich Group finished trading 55,360 shares at $4.95. Fontana closed 14 cents higher at $4.25, after exchanging 20,600 stock units, GWest Corporation concluded trading of 28,353 shares, with a loss of 5 cents at $1.26, Honey Bun gained 7 cents to close at $6, with 12,459 shares changing hands, iCreate settled 1 cent higher at 78 cents, with an exchange of 47,115 shares. Indies Pharma ended trading with 23,794 stock units and declined 1 cent to $3.25, Jamaican Teas closed at $4.40, with 28,032 shares changing hands, 
Jetcon Corporation ended at $2.09, with an exchange of 110,200 shares, KLE Group closed at $1.90, trading 5,343 units. Knutsford Express settled at $12.50, in exchanging 2,734 shares, Lasco Distributors ended 19 cents higher at $3.69, with 60,088 shares changing hands, Lasco Financial traded 240,378 shares and gained 20 cents to close at $5.20, Lasco Manufacturing finished 6 cents higher at $4.06, trading 33,847 stock units. Main Event closed with a loss of 48 cents at $5.40, with 4,350 units changing hands, SSL Venture Capital finished with a loss of 15 cents at $1.50, with 10,000 shares traded and Stationery and Office settled 20 cents higher at $9.40, with 20,652 stock units changing hands.
Initial public offers have been extremely popular amongst investors who have made good money from the vast majority of them. Come this summer investors will get five more opportunities to invest in IPOS.
Trading levels declined on Wednesday compared to Tuesday, ending with 2,945,014 units valued at $13,949,439 changing hands, compared to 6,856,068 units valued $29,636,228 changing hands previously.
Iron Rock traded 21,150 units, with a loss of 15 cents at $3.50, ISP Finance dropped $4.50 to close at $15, in trading 4,300 shares, Jamaican Teas closed at $4.40, with 80,560 shares changing hands, Jetcon Corporation ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.09, trading 15,623 shares. Key Insurance closed with a loss of 15 cents at $3, after exchanging 10,563 stock units, Knutsford Express settled at $12.50, with 3,032 shares crossing the exchange, Lasco Distributors ended trading 395,342 shares at $3.50, Lasco Financial closed with a loss of 15 cents at $5, with 180,422 shares changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing traded 210,979 stock units with a loss of 10 cents at $4, Medical Disposables lost 30 cents to end at $7.50, with an exchange of 4,950 shares, SSL Venture Capital ended at $1.65, with 200 shares trading, Stationery and Office settled at $9.20, with 300,150 stock units changing hands and tTech traded 1,245 shares with a loss of 40 cents at $5.30.