{"id":135349,"date":"2019-12-27T23:26:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=135349"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:28:57","slug":"markets-flat-though-investor-confidence-remains-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/markets-flat-though-investor-confidence-remains-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets flat though investor confidence remains high"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<table cellpadding=\"10\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody style=\"padding: 10px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial;\">\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td align=\"center\"><center>This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/expert\/view\/1204\/Gordon-Reid\">Gordon Reid<\/a> including Visa Inc. (<strong>A Top Pick Dec 19\/18, Up 44%<\/strong>) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/premium\/?utm_e-top-promo-top-picks-text\">Get Premium<\/a> to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/premium\/?utm_e-top-promo-top-picks-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123205\" src=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/premium-button.png\" alt=\"Get Premium\" width=\"289\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Markets in Toronto and New York were flat Friday, no surprise during the low-volume, post-Christmas period. Technically, the Dow made a new record close, up all of 0.08%.<\/p>\n<p>But the main point is that investors remain confident about world trade and markets. Question is, Will it last in 2020? World indices, including the TSX resumed trading. The Canadian exchange slipped 0.07%.<\/p>\n<p>Big gainers included <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/CLR-T\">Clearwater Seafoods<\/a>, up 4.86%, and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/SOX-T\">Stuart Olson<\/a>, rocketed up 17.61%. Beyond that, stock movements were limited today whether up or down. The rare exception was cannabis producer <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/HEXO-T\">Hexo<\/a> which plunged over 18% after announcing a surprise share <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/m\/abbd1037-06cc-3601-9f27-c7bfb07db245\/canadian-cannabis-company.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f69a; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/CLR-T\">Clearwater Seafoods Inc.<\/a> +4.86%<br \/>\n&#x1f3d7; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/SOX-T\">Stuart Olson Inc<\/a> +17.61%<br \/>\n&#x1f33f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/HEXO-T\">Hexo Corp<\/a> -18%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Gordon Reid including Visa Inc. (A Top Pick Dec 19\/18, Up 44%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. Markets in Toronto and [&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":[],"class_list":["post-135349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135349","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=135349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135349\/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=135349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}