Junior Market stock trading.
The day’s gain brings to 7 the number of times the index gain out of the last 8 trading days
At the close of market activities, 26 securities changed hands, compared to 28 on Wednesday and resulted in prices of 11 securities rising, 8 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Market activity led to an exchange of 1,481,572 shares at $6,322,070 compared to 1,527,469 units valued at $5,859,798 on Wednesday. The average traded for the day is 56,984 units for an at $243,157 each, in contrast to 54,552 units for an average of $209,278 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 79,372 units valued at $298,631 and previously, 81,351 units valued at $303,536. In contrast, April closed with an average of 87,963 units valued $317,267 for each security traded.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging ended 30 cents higher at $2.15,with 1,000 stock units traded, Cargo Handlers settled at $10, with an exchange of 5,819 shares, Caribbean Flavours traded 33,650 stock units, at $16.50,
Caribbean Producers closed trading with 47,875 shares and rose 15 cents to end at $4.90. Derrimon Trading ended 4 cents higher at $2.85, with 12,921 shares changing hands. Everything Fresh settled at $1.53, with an exchange of 98,588 units, Elite Diagnostic ended trading with 366,435 shares and climbed 34 cents higher to end at $3.50, Express Catering traded 22,427 shares with a loss of 10 cents at $6.90. FosRich Group ended the trading of 59,176 shares, at $5, Fontana closed with a loss of 5 cents at $4.55, in exchanging 96,454 stock units, General Accident ended with a loss of 39 cents at $4.10, with 9,800 units traded, GWest Corporation concluded trading of 42,971 shares at $1.39. Honey Bun finished 20 cents higher at $4, with 114,649 shares changing hands, iCreate settled with a loss of 5 cents at $0.85, with an exchange of 41,886 shares, Indies Pharma ended trading of 42,723 stock units, with a loss of 5 cents in closing at $3.30, ISP Finance jumped $1.30 to close at $12.50 after trading 430 shares. Jamaican Teas closed 10 cents higher at $4.20, after trading 106,203 shares, 
Jetcon Corporation ended with a loss of 10 cents at $2.40, with an exchange of 76,185 shares, KLE Group finished trading 12,059 units at $2.40, Knutsford Express settled at $12.50, with 13,621 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors ended trading with 111,463 shares and rose 1 cent higher to $3.90. Lasco Financial traded 41,105 shares, with a loss of 10 cents to close at $4.60, Lasco Manufacturing closed 16 cents higher at $3.50, with 29,767 stock units changing hands, Main Event closed 6 cents higher at $5.06, with 16,165 units changing hands, Stationery and Office climbed $1.20 higher to $9.70, with an exchange of 73,200 stock units and tTech traded 5,000 shares with a loss of 29 cents to close at $5.90.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
closed with an average of 87,963 units valued $317,267 for each security traded.
Indies Pharma ended trading of 53,782 stock units with a loss of 15 cents at $3.20. Iron Rock exchanged 2,576 units with a gain of 40 cents to $3.90, ISP Finance a lost $1.30 cents to close at $11.20 while trading 78,500 shares with, Jamaican Teas closed 10 cents higher at $4.10, with an exchange 18,290 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended 18 cents higher at $2.48, in trading 300 shares. Key Insurance concluded trading of 100 stock units and rose 45 cents higher to $3.70, Knutsford Express added 5 cents to end at $13, with 5,600 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors ended trading of 55,252 shares, at $3.90, Lasco Financial gained 50 to end at $5, with an exchange of 26,163 shares. Lasco Manufacturing traded 14,145 stock units, and closed with a loss of 8 cents at $3.52, Paramount Trading concluded trading of 25,572 shares, and lost 10 cents to close at $2.10, SSL Venture Capital finished 10 cents higher at $1.70, with 1,800 shares changing hands and tTech traded 446,052 shares and led to a 95 cents jump to close at $6.20.
After a long period of inactivity, ISP Finance finally traded but fell $3 to close at $12.50 with exchange of a mere 100, Jamaican Teas traded with a loss of 35 cents at $3.55, with the swapping of 17,771 units. Jetcon Corporation gained 5 cents at $2.35, with 5,464 shares passing through the exchange, Knutsford Express concluded trading of 9,300 stock units at $11.90, Lasco Distributors dropped 10 cents and finished at $3.60, with an exchange of 19,550 units, Lasco Financial lost 1 cent and settled at $4.15, trading 10,781 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 79,700 shares, with an increase of 12 cents at $3.25, Main Event traded 5 cents higher at $5.05, with an exchange of 821 shares, Stationery and Office concluded trading with 481,767 shares at $6.75 and tTech closed 30 cents higher at $5.30, with an exchange of 8,361 stock units.
Trading picked up on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday, ending in an exchange of 3,646,013 shares valued at $12,828,763, compared to 2,437,146 units valued at $10,799,411 on Friday, 
units at $15.50. Jetcon Corporation traded 1,950 shares with a loss of 30 cents to close at $2.80, Knutsford Express concluded trading 15,643 stock units at $12.50, Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 9 cents at $3.80, with an exchange of 14,485 units, Lasco Financial settled 5 cents higher at $4.50, with 3,139 shares changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 590,096 shares with a loss of 7 cents at $3.13, Medical Disposables finished trading with 50,000 stock units, at $6.60, Stationery and Office closed trading with 4,238 shares at $7.47 and tTech settled at $5.50, with 23,949 stock units changing hands. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% closed 15 cents higher at $1.15, in trading 6,400 shares.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange climbed sharply on Thursday with 8,679,414 units valued at $30,344,251 crossing the exchange, compared to 17,755,553 units valued at $89,888,819 exchanged on Wednesday.
cents at $3.01,with 475,330 shares changing hands. ISP Finance ended trading 500 stock units and rose $2 to close at $15.50, Jamaican Teas traded 72,300 units and rose 5 cents higher to $3.80, KLE Group ended at $2.80, with 8,689 shares changing hands, Knutsford Express concluded trading with 150 stock units and lost 10 cents to end at $12.70. Lasco Distributors finished 30 cents higher at $4, with an exchange of 10,150 units, Lasco Financial settled 1 cent higher at $4.41, with 10,400 shares trading, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 6,167,975 shares after rising 6 cents to $3.06, Main Event traded 55 cents higher at $5.80, with 1,229 shares changing hands. Medical Disposables finished trading 43,371 stock units and rose 50 cents to $7.50, SSL Venture Capital ended at $1.70, with just 2,500 shares passing through the exchange, Stationery and Office concluded trading 23,924 shares with a loss of 22 cents in closing at $7.25 and Sweet River finished with a loss of 50 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ low of at $3, with 198 shares changing hands.
hands, Cargo Handlers ended $12.65 higher at $12.65, with 5,500 stock units, Caribbean Cream settled at $5.25, with an exchange of 9,438 shares, Caribbean Producers traded 97,982 stock units at $4.47, Consolidated Bakeries finished trading 3,650 units, 1 cent higher to $2. Derrimon Trading closed with a loss of 11 cents at $2.80, with 25,009 shares changing hands, Dolphin Cove ended with a loss of $1.90 to $11.60, trading 176,147 shares, Everything Fresh concluded trading of 158,747 shares for 10 cents higher at $1.65, Elite Diagnostic finished with a loss of 10 cents at $3.20, with 10,000 stock units changing hands. Express Catering settled 42 cents higher at $8.30, with an exchange of 114,037 units, FosRich Group ended trading 33,093 shares at $4,after trading at an intraday all-time high of $4.50. Fontana traded 622,444 shares to close at $4, General Accident exchanged 73,369 shares with a gain of 5 cents to $4.35, GWest Corporation closed at $1.75, with 6,342 stock units changing hands, Honey Bun ended at $3.70, trading 705,845 units, ICreate fell 2 cents to close at 93 cents, trading 409,781 shares. Indies Pharma concluded trading of 42,204 shares with a loss of 25 cents at $2.75, Iron Rock finished with a loss of 50 cents at $3, with an exchange of 127,000 shares, ISP Finance rose 50 cents higher to $13.50, with 19,934 shares changing hands. Jamaican Teas ended trading 
79,420 stock units, with a loss of 5 cents at $3.80, Jetcon Corporation swapped 11,594 units, with a loss of 23 cents at $2.72, Key Insurance finished trading 5,000 shares and rose 15 cents higher to $3.15, Knutsford Express ended at $12, with 200 shares changing hands. Lasco Distributors lost 5 cents to end at $3.70, with an exchange of 193,061 stock units, Lasco Financial finished 8 cents higher at $4.59, trading 14,764 units, Lasco Manufacturing gained 4 cents to end at $3.05, with 48,900 shares changing hands, Main Event ended trading of 59,700 shares and gained 44 cents to close at $5. Medical Disposables traded 6,500 shares after rising 20 cents higher to $7, Stationery and Office dropped $1.20 to $7, with 39,298 shares changing hands and SSL Venture Capital closed at $1.70, with 28,115 units. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading 9% preference share concluded trading of 31,724 units at $2.10.
$1.80, with 35,447 units traded, Honey Bun concluded trading of 4,800 shares with a loss of 2 cents at $3.80, ICreate traded 399,531 shares with a lost of 2 cents to close at $1.02. Indies Pharma finished 24 cents higher at $3, with 728,417 shares changing hands, Jamaican Teas traded 1,037,035 units and rose 50 cents higher to close at $4.50. Jetcon Corporation finished trading 1,098,133 shares, with a loss of 5 cents at $3.10, Knutsford Express concluded trading of 1,700 stock units at $12.87, Lasco Distributors finished 5 cents higher at $3.80, with 44,807 units changing hands, Lasco Financial settled 10 cents higher at $4.60, in trading 16,244 shares. Lasco Manufacturing ended trading of 61,113 shares at $3.25, Main Event traded 13,409 shares with a loss of 10 cents to close at $5.50 and Medical Disposables finished trading 100,000 stock units with a loss of 20 cents at $6.80.
shares changing hands, Caribbean Producers finished trading 164,694 units, with a loss of 20 cents at $4.50. Consolidated Bakeries closed at $1.80, with an exchange of 10,350 shares. Derrimon Trading ended 15 cents higher at $2.95, in exchanging 390,716 shares, Dolphin Cove concluded trading of 1,973 shares with a loss of 1 cent at $14, Everything Fresh ended 4 cents higher at $1.74, with 4,500 stock units, Elite Diagnostic settled with a loss of 25 cents at $3.15, trading 10,984 units. Express Catering ended trading 241,022 shares, with a loss of 1 cent to close at $7.49, FosRich Group traded 48,639 shares at $4, Fontana finished trading 9 cents higher at $3.95, with 337,361 shares crossing the exchange platform, General Accident closed at $4, with 39,838 stock units changing hands. GWest Corporation ended 5 cents higher at $1.75, with an exchange of 97,288 units, Honey Bun concluded trading of 600 shares, with a loss of 1 cent to end at $3.98, Indies Pharma finished with a loss of 8 cents at $2.91, trading 19,777 shares, Iron Rock settled 5 cents higher at 
$3.55, in exchanging 29,885 shares. ISP Finance ended trading 15,000 stock units, at $13, Jamaican Teas traded 10,000 units, with a loss of 5 cents to close at $3.95, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 6,200 shares and rose 39 cents to end at $3, Knutsford Express concluded trading of just 100 stock units at $13. Lasco Distributors exchanged 865,988 units, at $3.75, Lasco Financial settled 1 cent higher at $4.80, with an exchange of 85,000 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 323,827 shares at $3.27, Main Event traded with 1,000 shares with a loss of 70 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $5. Medical Disposables gained 10 cents to $5.50, with 63,322 stock units changing hands, SSL Venture Capital ended 25 cents higher at $1.95, trading 4,500 shares and Stationery and Office concluded trading with 9,000 shares with a loss of 40 cents to close at $8.10.
Junior market trading ended with the Index gaining 27.35 points to close at 3,101.31 on Wednesday with the prices of 13 securities advancing, 9 declining and 5 remaining unchanged.
201,036 shares and rose 14 cents higher to $3.99, Indies Pharma finished 10 cents higher at $2.80, in exchanging 61,592 shares. ISP Finance ended trading with 5,000 stock units and climbed $2 to $13, Jamaican Teas traded 81,678 units for 28 cents more at $4, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 446,571 shares, adding 15 cents to end at $3.15, Knutsford Express lost $1.60 cents to close at $10.90, with 4,100 stock units changing hands. Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 29 cents at $3.70, with 210,378 units trading, Lasco Financial settled 24 cents higher at $4.80, with 82,082 shares crossing through the exchange, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 101,576 shares, and rose 4 cents to end at $3.20, Medical Disposables finished trading 1,381 stock units and gained 25 cents to end at $5.75. SSL Venture Capital ended with a loss of 5 cents at $1.90, trading 9,803 shares and Stationery and Office concluded trading 30 cents higher at $8.50, with 2,689 shares changing hands.
