{"id":177265,"date":"2020-07-01T23:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=177265"},"modified":"2020-07-01T23:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:30:40","slug":"nasdaq-hits-record-to-open-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/nasdaq-hits-record-to-open-q3\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasdaq hits record to open Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Canadian markets closed to celebrate our national birthday, Wall Street climbed on positive news about of Pfizer&#8217;s COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/65d0b33a-f12a-4878-ac87-da4835683949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaccine<\/a>. Developed with Germany&#8217;s BioNTech, Pfizer&#8217;s vaccine has yielded encouraging results though this is the initial phase of testing that was performed on 45 people.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/PFE-N\">Pfizer<\/a> climbed 3.18%, and the Nasdaq hit a new record close of 10,154, rising nearly 1%. The S&amp;P gained 0.5% and the Dow shed 0.3%. The usual suspects rallied, including <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/AMZN-Q\">Amazon<\/a> by 4.35% and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/BYND-Q\">Beyond Meat<\/a> at 5.72%, though energy and financial names slipped. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/SLB-N\">Schlumberger<\/a> was down 3.64%. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/META-Q\">Facebook<\/a>, on the other hand, recovered 4.62% amid a temporary ad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/facebook-boycott-ads-1.5631696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boycott<\/a> from companies unhappy with its efforts in policing hate speech. After a big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2020\/07\/01\/analyst-on-how-fedex-beat-earnings-expectations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earnings<\/a> beat after the bell on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/FDX-N\">FedEx<\/a> soared 11.72%. Meanwhile, gold slipped below $1,800\/ounce, and WTI and WCS per barrel climbed over 1%. The TSX reopens Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f489; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/PFE-N\">Pfizer Inc<\/a> +3.18%<br \/>\n&#x1f4e6; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/AMZN-Q\">Amazon.com<\/a> +4.35%<br \/>\n&#x1f969; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/BYND-Q\">Beyond Meat Inc.<\/a> +5.72%<br \/>\n&#x1f6e2; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/SLB-N\">Schlumberger Ltd.<\/a> -3.64%<br \/>\n&#x1f575;&#xfe0f;&#x200d;&#x2642;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/META-Q\">Facebook<\/a> +4.62%<br \/>\n&#x1f69a; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/FDX-N\">FedEx<\/a> +11.72%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Canadian markets closed to celebrate our national birthday, Wall Street climbed on positive news about of Pfizer&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine. Developed with Germany&#8217;s BioNTech, Pfizer&#8217;s vaccine has yielded encouraging results though this is the initial phase of testing that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":174836,"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-177265","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\/177265","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=177265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}