Wall Street hit a rare grand slam Thursday as all the major indices plus the Russell 2000 make all-time highs. Investors looked past the gloomy Covid outlook and economic numbers to find hope in the forthcoming stimulus\/aid package that Washington is about to unveil.<\/p>\n
Also fueling optimism was a forthcoming decision on whether to approve the Moderna vaccine or not (Moderna<\/a> shares popped 5%). Tech and consumer stocks led the way as the Nasdaq surged 0.84%, the S&P 0.58%, the Dow 0.48% and the Russell 2000 1.3%. Johnson & Johnson<\/a>, expected to release the results of its own Covid vaccine in January, surged 2.64%. However, Boeing<\/a>, which has been on the upswing, gave back 2.05%. Bitcoin continued to race up, jumping nearly 9%, as a barrel of WTI rose 1.2% and WCS barely 0.2%. Gold added $20 per ource.<\/p>\n The TSX rallied in line with Wall Street, climbing 0.49%. Materials and tech led the charge, while real estate and telcos weakened. Barrick<\/a> added 2.11% in heavy trading while Aphria<\/a> sank 6.21% after an analyst downgrade from hold to buy. Several other gold names popped, including Oceanagold<\/a> and Premier Gold Mines<\/a>, both leaping 9%. Elsewhere, Wildbrain rose 8.18%<\/p>\n 💉 Moderna<\/a> +5% Wall Street hit a rare grand slam Thursday as all the major indices plus the Russell 2000 make all-time highs. Investors looked past the gloomy Covid outlook and economic numbers to find hope in the forthcoming stimulus\/aid package that Washington […]<\/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-204068","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\/204068","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=204068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204068\/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=204068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n💉 Johnson & Johnson<\/a> +2.64%
\n🛫 Boeing<\/a> -2.05%
\n🥇 Barrick Gold<\/a> +2.11%
\n🌿 Aphria Inc<\/a> -6.21%
\n🥇 Oceanagold Corp<\/a> +9%
\n🥇 Premier Gold Mines<\/a> +9%
\n🎞 Wildbrain +8.18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"