Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange finished on Wednesday with 22 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 3,592,672 units valued at $12,085,054.
Wednesday’s trading fell sharply from the 11,135,194 units valued at $34,955,488 passing through the market on Tuesday, from trading in 29 securities.
Trading activity pushed the Junior Market Index down by 22.64 points to 3,202.80 with the prices of 9 securities rising, 11 declining and 2 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 163,303 units for an average of $549,321 in contrast to 383,972 units for an average of $1,205,362 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 703,409 units valued at $2,919,088 and previously 755,754 units valued at $3,148,757. In contrast, December ended with an average of 136,222 units at a value of $737,367 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, Access Financial closed with a loss of $2 at $50, with 6,673 shares trading, AMG Packaging ended 26 cents higher at $2.23, with 62,645 stock units changing hands, Caribbean Cream ended trading 58,493 shares, 15 cents higher to $5.85, Caribbean Producers traded 14,744 units and rose 20 cents higher to $5. Derrimon Trading ended with a rise of 20 cents to $2.75, with 21,049 shares passing through the market, Elite Diagnostic closed at $2.95, with an exchange of 81,386 stock units, Everything Fresh lost 4 cents to end trading of 120,950 shares at $1.65, Express Catering settled at $8, with 87,049 units. Fontana traded 2,808,416 shares and gained 10 cents to close at $3.20, General Accident traded with a loss of 10 cents at $3.35, with 84,366 shares changing hands, GWest Corporation finished trading with a loss of 6 cents at $1.75, with 22,756 shares, Honey Bun closed with a loss of 25 cents at $3.75, with 2,222 stock units. Indies Pharma rose 5 cents to end at $3.15, trading 69,089 shares, Jetcon Corporation settled 25 cents higher at $3.43, with an exchange of 4,930 shares. Knutsford Express finished trading 34,800 shares 10 cents higher at $11.60, Lasco Distributors closed with a
loss of 4 cents at $3.76, with 6,358 shares changing hands, Lasco Financial ended with a loss of 3 cents at $4.20, in the swapping of 54,759 shares, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading 17,762 stock units with a loss of 2 cents at $3.83. Main Event finished 90 cents higher at $6.90, with an exchange of 15,103 units, Paramount Trading ended trading of 10,000 shares with a loss of 15 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $2 and Stationery and Office traded 2,381 shares with a loss of 50 cents at $8.50. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed with a loss of 6 cents at 52 weeks’ low of $1.10, with 6,741 shares traded.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
average of $3,621,958 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 755,754 units valued at $3,148,757 and previously 810,207 units valued at $3,433,396. In contrast, December ended with an average of 136,222 units at a value of $737,367 for each security traded.
shares, Jamaican Teas finished with a loss of 40 cents at $4, with a swapping of 155,568 shares. Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 25 cents at $3.18, trading 73,424 shares, KLE Group traded 100 units with a loss of 10 cents at $2.90, Knutsford Express jumped 75 cents to $11.50 trading 100 shares, Lasco Distributors closed with a loss of 10 cents at $3.80, with 129,735 shares changing hands. Lasco Financial ended 3 cents higher at $4.23, trading 33,050 shares, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading 149,974 stock units with a loss of 13 cents at $3.85, Main Event finished with a loss of 98 cents at $6, with an exchange of 1,000 units. Medical Disposables settled 1 cent higher at $7.01, trading 1,350 shares, Paramount Trading ended trading 50,822 shares with a loss of 30 cents at $2.15, following release of below par quarterly profit and Stationery and Office traded 6,000 shares with a rise of 60 cents to end at $9.
5 cents to close at $3.45, FosRich Group ended trading 2,131 shares 30 cents higher at $3.90, General Accident traded 2,300 shares at $3.45, GWest Corporation finished trading 5,838 shares at $1.81, Honey Bun closed at $3.75, with an exchange of 8,619 stock units. Indies Pharma rose 5 cents, to end at $3.15, trading 90,084 shares, Jetcon Corporation settled 40 cents higher at $3.43, trading 1,000 shares, KLE Group traded 17,617 units for 5 cents higher at $3. Knutsford Express finished trading with a loss of $1.25 at $10.75, with 6,679,341 shares changing hands, as 
Stocks of companies that have the potential for active expansions, are likely to do better than those companies relying mainly on agronomic growth.
higher at $8, with the trading of 39,130 units, FosRich Group ended trading of 9,000 shares with a loss of 15 cents at $3.60. General Accident traded 5 cents higher at $3.45, in exchanging 35,246 shares. Investors reacted negatively to Indies Pharma full year results with lower profits than for 2017 and sold the stock down by 25 cents, to end at $3.10, trading 1,411,221 shares. Jamaican Teas traded 17,740 shares with a loss of 10 cents to close at $4.40, Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 1 cent at $3.03, with 133,058 shares changing hands, Key Insurance ended trading of 100 stock units at 10 cents higher to $3.20, Knutsford Express finished trading of 100,187 shares with a loss of 1 cent at $12. Lasco Distributors closed 20 cents higher at $4, with an exchange of 14,700 shares, Lasco Financial ended 10 cents higher at $4.30, with the trading of 371,892 shares, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading 18 cents higher at $3.98, with 21,195 stock units, Main Event finished at $6.98, trading 200 units and Medical Disposables settled at $7, with 3,475 shares changing hands.
Fontana
$1.81. Honey Bun closed with a loss of 10 cents at $3.75, in exchanging 18,500 stock units, Indies Pharma traded 105,904 shares and rose 15 cents to end at $3.35, Jetcon Corporation settled with a loss of 16 cents at $3.04, with an exchange of 7,000 shares, KLE Group traded 8,000 units and lost 5 cents at $2.95. Knutsford Express finished trading of 7,539 shares at $13, Lasco Distributors fell 9 cents at $3.80, trading 27,240 shares. Lasco Financial closed at $4.20, with an exchange of 96,350 shares, Medical Disposables fell 10 cents in settling at $7, in exchanging 14,682 shares. Paramount Trading ended trading with a loss of 15 cents at $2.45, while trading 8,176 shares and Stationery and Office jumped 40 cents to close at $8.40, while exchanging 19,087 shares.
Fontana listed on the Junior Market on Tuesday, accompanied by strong demand to buy more than 17 million shares above $2.43. Attempts to trade the stock above $3.45 did not succeed as they were canceled at the close. 
trading 500 stock units at $3.10. Knutsford Express finished trading 15,249 shares and rose 50 cents to end at $13, Lasco Distributors closed with a loss of 19 cents at $3.80, trading 15,800 shares, Lasco Financial ended with a loss of 27 cents at $4.23, with an exchange of 29,636 shares. Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 7,470 stock units with a rise of 15 cents to $3.85, Medical Disposables settled at $7, exchanging 5,000 shares. Paramount Trading ended in exchanging 5,200 shares and lost 30 cents to close at $2.60, Stationery and Office fell 10 cents, in closing at $8, while exchanging 1,813,896 shares and tTech closed $1.61 higher at $6.20, trading 500 units. In the Junior Market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% closed at $1.16, with 16,303 shares trading.
Indies Pharma
$3.85, with 2,625 stock units changing hands, Indies Pharma lost 15 cents in trading of 92,764,938 shares at $3.10. Jamaican Teas finished 20 cents higher at $4.20, with an exchange of 85,640 shares, Jetcon Corporation jumped 74 cents to $3.34, with 9,500 shares trading, Key Insurance ended trading 20,095 stock units, with a loss of 90 cents to close at $3.10, KLE Group traded 51,833 units at $3, Knutsford Express finished trading at $12.50, with 447 shares. Lasco Distributors closed 10 cents higher at $3.99, in trading 21,600 shares. Lasco Financial ended with a loss of 10 cents at $4.50, with 51,011 shares changing hands, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading with 23,925 stock units with a loss of 29 cents at $3.70, Main Event finished 1 cent higher at $6.98, with 860 units changing hands and Stationery and Office traded 12,643 shares at $8.10. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 9.5% closed at $1.16, in trading 100 shares.
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.
While Junior Market stocks on the Jamaica Stock Exchange chalked up gains of just 18.8 percent overall for 2018, but 5 companies’ stock rose between 104 to 282 percent for the year.
in the top 10 for two consecutive years. Caribbean Flavours landed the 6th spot with a gain of 73 percent. Statinery & Office Supplies reappeared in the Top 10 with a rise of 69 percent. ISP Financial chipped in with a rise of 67 percent in 8th spot to be followed by the Montego Bay based, Cargo Handlers that chipped in with 50 percent and the early 2018 listed Elite Diagnostic, was tenth after rising 48 percent.
reflected the losses caused by the toilet tissue operations with a decline in the stock price by 37 percent as it followed tTech with a decline of 33 percent. Eppley that migrated to the main market on the last day of 2018, declined 24 percent to the 6th worse performer, while Lasco Financial lost altitude to close out 2018 as the 7th worse performing the Junior Market stock, with a loss of 15 percent, just ahead of Knutsford Express at the 8th spot, with a fall of 13 percent, Sweat River fell 9 percent and Consolidated Bakeries ended at the 10th spot with a loss of 6 percent.