At the Thursday close, the U.S. was still counting votes in battleground states, though Democratic remained closer to winning the election. A winner may be declared literally at any moment. However, markets were behaving as if Biden had won, though the Republicans will likely keep control of the Senate, thereby preventing a Blue Wave. Wall Street enjoyed another strong session as the Dow and S&P climbed 2% and the Nasdaq jumped 2.59% to approach its September 2 high.<\/p>\n
Tech continued to rise as Apple<\/a> gained 3.55% as the day’s heaviest-traded stock. Amazon<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> both rose 2.5%. Also exchanging many hands was American Airlines<\/a> which enjoyed a 5.41% lift. Industrials reversed losses earlier in the week as Caterpillar<\/a> bounced up 5% and Dow by 5.43%. Healthcare saw mixed trading. The day’s big winner was Qualcomm<\/a> soared 12.75% after the chipmaker forecast Q1 revenues above street estimates and projected solid growth in 5G smartphone sales in 2021.<\/p>\n Unlike past days, the TSX kept pace of gains with its southern neighbours, by popping 1.87%. After further legalization in some American states, American investors continue to pour into Canadian weed<\/a> stocks. Aurora<\/a> rocketed 40% as Cronos<\/a> leapt 16%. Precious metals enjoyed another up day as Endeavour Silver<\/a> rallied 21%. Investors were thrilled with Lightspeed<\/a> POS’s Q2 report and Q3 outlook, pushing the tech stock up 16.28%. Elsewhere, Air Canada<\/a> rose 7.49%. Every TSX sector finished in the green, but materials jumped 6%. The US dollar continued to weaked as the Canadian loonie rose past 76.5 cents. The price of gold advanced over 2%, though the price of oil slipped over 1%.<\/p>\n 🍎 Apple<\/a> +3.55% At the Thursday close, the U.S. was still counting votes in battleground states, though Democratic remained closer to winning the election. A winner may be declared literally at any moment. However, markets were behaving as if Biden had won, though […]<\/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-197588","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\/197588","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=197588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197588\/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=197588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n📦 Amazon.com<\/a> +2.5%
\n🕵️♂️ Facebook<\/a> +2.5%
\n🛫 American Airlines Group<\/a> +5.41%
\n🏗 Caterpillar<\/a> +5%
\n💾 Qualcomm<\/a> +12.75%
\n🌿 Aurora Cannabis<\/a> +40%
\n🌿 Cronos Group Inc<\/a> +16%
\n🥈 Endeavour Silver Corp.<\/a> +21%
\n💿 Lightspeed POS<\/a> +16.28%
\n🛫 Air Canada<\/a> +7.49%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"