The Junior Market suffered the worse one day fall ever on Monday, with a decline of 102.64 points to close at 3,275.55 after investors slashed the prices of 23 securities down, leaving just 6 to rise as five closed unchanged.
Monday’s decline in the index surpassed the 100.65 points fall on July 7, 2016.
At the average PE of the market fell to 13.8, down sharply from 14.6 previously.
Market activity ended with 34 securities trading, resulting in 7,002,559 units valued at $26,321,318 compared to 3,502,559 units for $8,563,366 from 34 securities on Friday.
Trading ended with an average of 205,958 units for an average of $774,156 in contrast to 103,016 units for an average of $251,864 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 160,734 units with a value of $468,747 for each security, compared to 136,327 valued at $303,922 for each security traded, previously. December closed with an average of 521,319 shares at $1,344,719 for each security changing hands.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investors Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ending with bid higher than the last selling price and 4 closing with lower offers.
By the close of trading, AMG Packaging lost 18 cents to close at $2.07 with 1,500 shares changing hands, Blue Power lost 2 cents trading 7,144 units at $4.78, investors exchanged 84,810 shares of Caribbean Cream by pushing the price down 55 cents to $3.75. Derrimon Trading lost 1 cent to end at $2.58 with 1,450 stock units crossing the exchange; Dolphin Cove lost 85 cents to close at $10.30 with 94,700 units changing hands, Elite Diagnostic declined 2 cents to close at $4.88, with an exchange of 7,000 stock units. Everything Fresh shed 14 cents to end at $1.06, trading 48,540 stock units, Fontana lost 35 cents to end at $7, after exchanging 595,288 shares, FosRich had 32,717 stock units changing hands and declined by 31 cents to close at $4.19. GWest Corporation exchanged 77,692 shares after gaining 13 cents to close at $1.20; Honey Bun fell 47 cents to settle at $8.02, after trading 4,866 stock units, iCreate gained 1 cent to end the day at 71 cents with 59,500 shares changing hands. Jamaican Teas declined 2 cents to end at $6.58 with 1,933,136 stock units crossing the exchange, Jetcon Corporation fell 28 cents while exchanging 207,813 shares and ended at $1.50. Key Insurance rose 10 cents to close at $3.30 with 44,467 units changing hands, Knutsford Express gained 40 cents to end at $11 with 5,156 units crossing the exchange. Lasco Distributors dipped 30 cents trading 111,708 shares to end at $3,
Lasco Financial swapped 29,700 stock units after falling 20 cents to end at $4.10, Lasco Manufacturing lost 66 cents to settle at $4 with 146,880 shares changing hands. Limners & Bards fell 1 cent with 103,876 stock units changing hands at $2.99. Lumber Depot gained 1 cent to end at $1.51 with a transfer of 2,302,905 stock units; Main Event gained 5 cents trading 22,291 shares to settle at $6.10, Medical Disposables shed 55 cents to end at $7 with an exchange of a mere 200 units. Paramount fell 27 cents while trading 834 shares to close at $1.83, SSL Venture Capital lost 20 cents to close at 52 weeks’ low of $1 with 185,114 stock units changing hands. Stationery and Office Supplies fell 50 cents to end at $10.50 with 105,795 shares crossing the exchange and tTech ended at $5.55 after gaining 5 cents while exchanging 100 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
In contrast, November closed with an average of 120,579 shares at $506,880 for each security traded.
Knutsford Express exchanged 33,258 shares and declined 30 cents to end at $9.30, Lasco Distributors dropped 38 cents with 275,192 shares crossing the exchange to close at $3.101, Lasco Financial traded 20,660 stock units and gained 45 cents in closing at $3.90. Limners & Bards lost 5 cents in exchanging 113,993 stock units at $3, Lumber Depot lost 7 cents to close at $1.83 with 1,720,435 units crossing the exchange, MailPac rose 10 cents to settle at $2.30 while exchanging 71 million shares. Main Event traded 2,455 units but fell 5 cents to $6.15, Paramount Trading climbed 20 cents to close at $2 with 18,465 shares crossing the market, Stationery & Office Supplies rose 60 cents with just 1,001 units changing hands at $10.50 and tTech traded 3,785 shares but lost 45 cents to $5.50.
The Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market bounced 33.01 points to 3,378.55 on Wednesday with 12 securities gaining, 8 falling and 10 remaining unchanged as the market claws back portion of the near 69 points drop on Tuesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Key Insurance traded 1,218 shares after rising 40 cents to end at $3.50, Lasco Distributors closed with a loss of 29 cents at $3.30, swapping of 570,450 shares, Lasco Financial declined by 10 cents to settle at $5.20, with 112,030 units trading, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 90,191 shares, after rising 15 cents to end at $5.40. Limners and Bards closed 26 cents higher at $2.98, with 42,500 stock units trading, Medical Disposables fell 50 cents trading 1,340 units at $7. Stationery and Office Supplies closed with 5,430 units crossing the exchange and gained 9 cents to end at $12.20, and tTech exchanged 20,271 units and gained 30 cents to end at $6.30.
The Junior Market Index declined by 36.90 points to close at 3,549.04 on Monday with 30 securities changing hands with declining stocks clobbered rising stocks 2 to 1 with a number of prices falling sharply.
Key Insurance lost 25 cents in trading 5,000 shares to close at $3, Knutsford Express lost 55 cents to end at $11.95, trading 1,300 shares, Limners and Bards ended market activity exchanging 374,926 shares to close at $3 after falling 20 cents. Lasco Distributors fell 2 cents trading 103,744 units at $3.30. Lasco Financial closed with a gain of 55 cents in trading of 12,100 units to end at $5.55, Lasco Manufacturing shed 10 cents exchanging 65,784 units at $5.50, Medical Disposables closed with a loss of $1.19 cents to close at $7.40, in the swapping of 1,000 shares. Main Event closed trading of 33,984 units and gained 14 cents to end at $7, Paramount Trading dipped 39 cents with 22,171 units changing hands at $1.60 and Stationery and Office Supplies added just 1 cent to end at $12.50, in trading 100 shares.
Jamaican Teas closed 10 cents higher at $4.20, with 1,898 shares changing hands, Jetcon Corporation ended with a loss of 18 cents at $2.30, with 8,088 shares crossing the exchange, but traded earlier, at an intraday 52 weeks’ low of $2.29. Key Insurance concluded trading with 1,247 stock units, after rising 20 cents to end at $3.90, Lasco Distributors traded 65,399 shares with a loss of 1 cent at $3.89, Lasco Financial ended at $5, with 28,300 shares changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing finished with a loss of 2 cents at $3.50, in trading 15,511 stock units. Main Event closed 60 cents higher at $5.60, with an exchange of 888 units, Paramount Trading concluded trading with 11,750 shares at $2.10, SSL Venture Capital finished at $1.70, with 2,846 shares passing through the exchange. Stationery and Office settled at $7.01 with 60,158 stock units changing hands and tTech traded with a loss of 10 cents at $6.10, with the trading of 6,300 shares. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 8 cents at $1.90, with 25,630 stock units changing hands.
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.
At the close of the market, Access Financial closed at $45.50, with an exchange of 7,807 shares, AMG Packaging ended 1 cent higher at $2.16, with 5,000 stock units changing hands, Blue Power concluded trading of 72,817 units, with a loss of 20 cents in closing at $4.30, Cargo Handlers settled at $11, in trading 1,500 shares. Caribbean Producers finished trading of 41,150 units with a rise of 19 cents to end $4.99, Consolidated Bakeries closed 4 cents higher at $2.09, with an exchange of 2,448 shares, Derrimon Trading ended at $2.65, with an exchange of 16,113 shares, Everything Fresh finished with a loss of 5 cents at $1.40, trading 244,900 stock units. Elite Diagnostic settled with a rise of 16 cents at $3.16, in trading 1,000 units, Express Catering swapped 33,377 shares after rising 20 cents higher at $8, FosRich Group traded 4,777 shares, in rising 65 cents higher to $4.40, Fontana finished 
trading at $4.05, with 770,452 shares, Honey Bun concluded trading at $4, with 34,550 shares. iCreate rose 1 cent to close at $1.01, with an exchange of 6,590 shares. Iron Rock settled with a loss of 1 cent at $3.98, trading 5,000 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 12,224 units and rose 10 cents higher to $4, Jetcon Corporation traded 17,185 shares, at $2.80, Key Insurance closed at $3.15, with 1,000 shares changing hands. Lasco Distributors finished with a loss of 19 cents at $3.70, with an exchange of 61,905 units, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading with 16,413 shares and closed 10 cents higher at $3.65, Main Event traded with a loss of 6 cents at $5.45, with 650 shares crossing through the exchange. SSL Venture Capital ended with a loss of 5 cents at $1.65, with an exchange of 2,670 shares and Stationery and Office lost 5 cents to close at $6.75, with 235,105 shares changing hands.
$3.87, ICreate traded 561,314 and lost 4 cents to close at $1.05. Indies Pharma finished 13 cents higher at $2.83, trading 13,467 shares. Iron Rock settled at $3.50, with 92,970 shares changing hands, Jamaican Teas traded 15 cents higher at $4, with an exchange of 19,276 units, Jetcon Corporation finished trading 108,985 shares, at $3, Key Insurance closed at $3, with the trading of 5,000 shares. Knutsford Express concluded trading with 3,814 stock units at $12.90, Lasco Distributors closed at $3.80, with 1,047,602 units changing hands, Lasco Financial settled with a loss of 20 cents at $4.60, after trading 10,462 shares, Lasco Manufacturing ended trading 10,451 shares with a loss of 2 cents to close at $3.25. Main Event traded with a loss of 20 cents at $5.60, with 1,236 shares changing hands, Medical Disposables rose 11 cents to close at $6.60, trading 19,900 stock units, SSL
In a long delayed but shortened trading session on Friday, the Junior Market traded volume jumped 154 percent over Thursday’s levels while the value of trades increased by 203 percent resulting from 1,085,040 units valued at $5,213,905 compared to 426,549 units valued at $1,722,476 on Thursday, 
$3.38, Honey Bun closed with a loss of 5 cents at $3.85, with 13,750 stock units changing hands, Indies Pharma closed trading of 50,512 shares at $3.25, ISP Finance concluded trading 3,300 shares at $1 higher to end at $13. Jamaican Teas finished 10 cents higher at $4, exchanging 500 shares. Key Insurance ended trading at $4, with an exchange 10,000 stock units, KLE Group traded 42,700 units at $3, Knutsford Express closed trading of 1,100 shares with a loss of 50 cents at $12.50. Lasco Distributors closed 7 cents higher at $3.89, with 169,003 shares changing hands, Lasco Financial ended with a loss of 16 cents at $4.60, after 25,861 shares changed hands, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading with 13,300 stock units for a gain of 1 cent to $3.99. Medical Disposables settled 50 cents higher at $7, with the trading of 10,588 shares, Paramount Trading exchanged 4,122 shares at $2.90, SSL Venture Capital lost 1 cent in trading 5,115 shares to end at $1.93 and Stationery and Office traded with a loss of 5 cents at $8.10, with 3,966 shares changing hands.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Thursday with a miniscule increase in the Index of 2.46 points to 3,168.22 after 11 securities advanced, 5 declined, while 7 remained unchanged as 23 securities changed hands versus 23 on Wednesday.
General Accident finished trading 25 cents higher at $3.75, with 64,860 shares, GWest Corporation closed 10 cents higher at $1.55, with 10,000 stock units trading, Indies Pharma traded 411,391 shares and gained 3 cents to close at $3.15, Jamaican Teas settled at $3.70, while exchanging 42,931 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended trading 4,700 stock units for 40 cents higher at $3.40. Key Insurance traded 14,900 units, with a loss of 2 cents at $4.98,