Jetcon closed at a new high on Tuesday with a rise of 275% in its Q3 profit.
Trading that was slow on Monday picked up steam on Tuesday with many more securities trading with higher volumes. Trading closed on Tuesday with the market index falling 10.09 points to close with 2,485.13 points, bringing the gain for the year to date at 39 percent.
The volume of stocks traded that fell sharply on Monday, surged on Tuesday with the volume jumping 310 percent from Monday’s levels and ending with just 1,290,866 units changing hands, valued at $5,509,660, up 279 percent from $754,871 on Monday.
At the close of trading 17 securities traded, up from 11 on Monday, while 9 stocks advanced but a number of them rose by just one or two cents and 8 declining, including 3 that traded at a 52 weeks’ high.
Market activities ended with 6 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 ending with a lower offer.An average of 75,933 units with an average value of $324,098 traded, compared to 34,104 units with an average value of $56,558 on the preceding trading day. The average for the month to date is 139,639 units for an average of $855,698 compared to 129,138 units at $709,705 for October.
In trading activity, Access Financial rose 2 cents with 727 shares changing hands to close at $20.08, AMG Packaging fell 50 cents and ended with 3,951 shares changing hands at $19, Caribbean Cream fell 65 cents and closed with 67,195 shares changing hands at $7. Caribbean Flavours traded 5,000 units to end at $8.50 with a fall of 1 cent, Caribbean Producers fell 29 cents in trading 60,000 shares to end at $3.21, Consolidated Bakeries lost 25 cents in trading 304,000 shares to close at $2.20, General Accident gained 3 cents and closed with 2,571 units changing hands at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $3.15. Honey Bun with 22,900 shares changing hands rose 40 cents and closed at $5.90, Jamaican Teas traded 11,900 shares and gained 10 cents to close at $4, Jetcon Corporation traded 227,000 shares and gained 2 cents to close at 52 weeks’ closing high of
$5.02, KLE Group climbed 45 cents in traded 41,500 shares and closed at $1.60. Lasco Distributors ended with 78,438 shares trading at $6.90, after declining by 1 cent, Lasco Financial ended with 45,120 shares changing hands at $3.10, after rising 10 cents, Lasco Manufacturing closed at $4.89 with 153,518 shares changing hands after slipping 1 cent. Medical Disposables lost 2 cents in trading 5,400 units, to end at $4.78, Paramount Trading price hit an intraday all-time high of $4.70 in early trading, but rose 1 cent to a new all-time closing high of $4.01 with 151,218 shares changing hands and tTech fell 70 cents and ended with 110,428 shares changing hands at $5.10.
Barita Investments traded 107,628 shares at $4.20, Jamaica Stock Exchange had 86,100 shares down at $5.50, JMMB Group had 170,200 shares changing hands at $14, Kingston Wharves exchanged 40,000 units at $18.51, National Commercial Bank traded shares at 52,966 shares at $46.01 and Sagicor Group had 120,786 units trading at $24. In the junior market Caribbean Cream fell to $7 while trading 67,195 units, Consolidated Bakeries traded 200,000 shares and slipped to $2.20, Lasco Distributors had 50,282 units at $6.90, Lasco Manufacturing has so far traded 108,900 units at $4.90 and tTech trades 110,428 shares at $5.10.
Trading on the Trinidad and Tobago Exchange closed on Monday with 10 securities changing hands, down from 13 on Friday, 1 of which advanced, 2 declined and 7 traded unchanged. 
Gains| Sagicor Financial gained 5 cents to close at a 52 weeks high of $7.25 with 3,000 shares changing hands.
Trading levels on the Jamaica Stock Exchange slipped at the close on Monday from Friday’s with the number of securities and volume trading falling, compared to Friday. At the close the All Jamaica Composite Index fell 919.74 points to close at 188,471.81, with the year to date gains at 12.6 percent. The JSE Market Index fell 822.42 points to finish at 169,569.09 and the JSE combined index dropped 623.42 points to end at 182,889.85 with a gain for the year to date of 15.6 percent. 
The market closed with 31 securities trading as the prices of 7 gained while 16 declined in the overall market, including 4 stocks rising and 4 falling, in the junior market.
Jamaica Producers rose 20 cents in trading 1,000 shares to close at $8.20, Jamaica Stock Exchange fell 20 cents and ended at $5.50 after trading 339,443 shares. JMMB Group traded 59,840 shares to end at $13.45 with a loss of 25 cents, Mayberry Investments ended with 12,951 shares trading to close at $3.65 for a fall of 35 cents, National Commercial Bank ended trading of 19,790 shares to close at $46, Pan Jamaican Investment closed at $23.70 after trading 3,000 shares. Radio Jamaica closed with a 14 cents loss at $1.31 with 22,974 shares trading, Sagicor Group had 85,203 shares changing hands to close at $24, Sagicor Real Estate Fund traded with a fall of 13 cents to close at $10.12 with 93,001 units switching owners, Scotia Group traded 117,800 shares to close at $31.21, Scotia Investments dived $4.45 in trading 6,200 shares to end at $26.55 and Seprod fell 50 cents in trading 43,847 shares to end at $27. 
At the close of trading 11 securities traded, down from 19 on Friday, while 4 stocks advanced and 4 declining, including 1 that traded at an all-time high. Market activities ended with 6 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 ending with lower offers.
Honey Bun with 50,315 shares changing hands lost 20 cents and closed at $5.50, Jetcon Corporation traded only 1,300 shares and gained 1 cent to close at $5, Key Insurance traded 25,621 shares and closed at $2, Lasco Distributors ended with 20,883 shares trading at $6.95, after declining by 5 cents. Lasco Manufacturing closed at $4.89 with 7,445 shares changing hands after slipping 1 cent. Medical Disposables traded 10,000 units, to end at $4.80, Paramount Trading rose 10 cents to a new all-time high of $4 with just 2,470 shares changing hands and tTech gained 68 cents and ended with 11,000 shares changing hands at $5.80.
Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange started the new weekly session in the morning session on Monday with very moderate traded with the main market indices falling mildly and the junior market down slightly with just 3 junior stocks trading after 75 minutes of market activity. 
of $3 for the year is on target. The other stocks have held their respective places but with Jetcon price rising during the past week to $5 from $4.51.
closed trading with 23,850 units at a 52 weeks’ high of $3.12. Honey Bun with 10,162 shares changing hands lost 30 cents and closed at $5.70, Jamaican Teas traded 1,085 shares to close at $3.90, 
