{"id":113955,"date":"2019-10-15T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=113955"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:57:23","slug":"113955-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/113955-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphria gives the TSX a nice buzz while U.S. banks report mixed earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, American markets rose by 1% while the TSX barely nudged into the green. Surprisingly everyone in Toronto was <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5210\/APHA-T\">Aphria<\/a>, which reported a second-straight quarter of <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/pot-producer-aphria-soars-pre-130538886.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profits<\/a> in a sector that has plunged by more than half since it was legalized a year ago. (Read our special <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/one-year-of-cannabis-investing\/\">cannabis investing report<\/a>.) Aphria reported an increase in an 8% sales quarter-to-quarter to $20 million while its peers, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4811\/WEED-T\">Canopy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5389\/ACB-T\">Aurora<\/a>, are reporting declines or warnings.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Aphria soared by 15.46% to $7.17, but also lifted its competitors, with Canopy climbing 3.35% to $26.53, and the sector ETF, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5482\/HMMJ-T\">HMMJ<\/a>, jumping 5.12% to $10.89. Aphria&#8217;s triumph offered the cannabis sector a much needed buzz after suffering a hard first year . However, the Age of Edibles (aka Cannabis 2.0) is dawning and that should bring fresh revenues to this space (Stockchase will offer more analysis on cannabis this week.) After hours Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5384\/ATZ-T\">Aritzia<\/a> reported a serious <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/aritzia-reports-second-quarter-fiscal-200000039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earnings<\/a> beat.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Wall Street, four big U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/goldman-loses-its-wall-street-luster-as-earnings-disappoint-unitedhealths-stock-soars-toward-record-price-gain-2019-10-15?siteid=yhoof2&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banks<\/a> reported on Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/544\/GS-N\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> came out a loser, but <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/680\/JPM-N\">JP Morgan<\/a> beat the street in profit, revenue and net interest income, raising its stock by 3.01%. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/282\/C-N\">Citigroup<\/a> was another winner, also beating in revenue and profit expectations. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/1341\/WFC-N\">Wells Fargo<\/a>\u00a0 disappointed, but its revenue beat the street, which was enough to lift the stock 1.7%. For once in a long while, old-school earnings dominated the headlines instead of geopolitics; the US-China trade negotiations were quiet today.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f33f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5210\/APHA-T\">Aphria Inc<\/a> +15.46%<br \/>\n&#x1f33f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4811\/WEED-T\">Canopy Growth Corp.<\/a> +3.35%<br \/>\n&#x1f33f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5482\/HMMJ-T\">Horizon&#8217;s Medical Marijuana<\/a> +5.12%<br \/>\n&#x1f3db; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/680\/JPM-N\">JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co<\/a> +3.01%<br \/>\n&#x1f3db; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/1341\/WFC-N\">Wells Fargo<\/a> +1.7%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, American markets rose by 1% while the TSX barely nudged into the green. Surprisingly everyone in Toronto was Aphria, which reported a second-straight quarter of profits in a sector that has plunged by more than half since it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":345019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No","cwp_rev_product_name":"","cwp_rev_product_image":"","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_options":[],"wppr_pros":[],"wppr_cons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[287,157,204,286,283,167,289,280,288],"class_list":["post-113955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily","tag-aphria","tag-banks","tag-cannabis","tag-earnings-season","tag-edibles","tag-etf","tag-fashion","tag-marijuana","tag-retail"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}