Markets on Thursday inched up as U.S. stimulus talks and plans to mass-vaccinate the population continue to fuel investor optimism, despite record cases and deaths from Covid, particularly in America. In Canada, telcos, energy and staples led the TSX which closed 0.23%. Materials was the only negative sector.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest gainers was WSP Global<\/a>, up 11.62%, after taking over an environmental consulting firm which will position WSP<\/a> to capitalize on the growing ESG movement. Banks earnings continued as TD<\/a> and CIBC reported strong quarters, both lifted by lower loan-loss provisions. Despite spiking at the opening of the session, TD<\/a> actually finished -0.16% while CIBC<\/a> closed 0.26%. Meanwhile, Air Canada<\/a> continued to climb, rising 5.25%.<\/p>\n On Wall Street, onoing stimulus talks in Washington gave investors hope as the Dow rose 0.29% and the Nasdaq made a new record, up 0.23%. Only the S&P closed slightly down. Recent good news from the vaccine-makers also upheld sentiment. However, an announcement from Pfizer<\/a> that it can deliver only half of its expected batch of vaccines this year due to supply constraints pressured that stock by 1.74%, but boosted Moderna<\/a>‘s by 10%. Elsewhere, an order of planes from Ryanair fuelled Boeing<\/a> shares by 6%, and an order of vaccines by Washington lifted Walgreens<\/a> by 7.48%. Walgreens<\/a> will help administer the vaccine when it arrives. The price of WTI oil gained 0.8% by the close while WCS rallied 1.2% amid news that OPEC<\/a> will moderately increase production starting in January.<\/p>\n 🧱 WSP Global Inc.<\/a> +11.62% Markets on Thursday inched up as U.S. stimulus talks and plans to mass-vaccinate the population continue to fuel investor optimism, despite record cases and deaths from Covid, particularly in America. In Canada, telcos, energy and staples led the TSX which […]<\/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-202036","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\/202036","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=202036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202036\/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=202036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n🏛 Toronto Dominion<\/a> -0.16%
\n🏛 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce<\/a> +0.26%
\n🛫 Air Canada<\/a> +5.25%
\n💉 Pfizer Inc<\/a> -1.74%
\n💉 Moderna<\/a> +10%
\n🛫 Boeing<\/a> +6%
\n💊 Walgreen Boots Alliance<\/a> +7.48%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"