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Despite generally strong earnings, markets closed down on Friday: the S&P 0.72%, the Dow -54%, the Nasdaq -0.85% and the TSX -0.77%. The Dow and Nasdaq saw a weekly loss and the TSX was basically flat. However, in April the S&P enjoyed its best month since November and the Nasdaq saw its sixth straight monthly gain as all the major indices remain near all-time highs. The S&P and Nasdaq both rose 5% in April.<\/p>\n
In Toronto, all the major sectors were down, particularly tech and materials. Gold names failed to glitter as, for example, Eldorado<\/a> finished -8.24% and Western Copper and Gold<\/a> closed -4.81%. AutoCanada<\/a> slid 5.32%, Shopify<\/a> sank 4.19% and Goodfood<\/a> slipped 4.5%. However, energy names gushed as Tamarack Valley<\/a> gained 5.76% and Imperial Oil<\/a> 4.78%. The price of crude oil, though, declined as WTI shed over 2% but stayed well over $63\/barrel while WCS plunged over 3% but hovered around $51.50. Meanwhile, the price of gold was flat as Bitcoin<\/a> recovered recent losses by jumping around 7.5% to nearly $57,000. The Canadian dollar was flat Friday, but stayed above $81 this week.<\/p>\n In earnings, Twitter<\/a> suffered a weak Q1 sales number and forecast, and shares plunged 15.16%. In contrast, Tesla<\/a> regained 4.79% and Amgen<\/a> 2.1%. Semis had a tough day as Xilinx<\/a> closed -3.4% and Lam Research<\/a> -3.2%. In contrast, health enjoyed some upside as BioNTech popped 4.8% and Amgen 2.1%.<\/p>\n 🥇 Eldorado Gold<\/a> -8.24% This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Brian Madden, including Finning Int (A Top Pick May 08\/19, Down 25%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. Despite generally strong earnings, […]<\/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-224357","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\/224357","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=224357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224357\/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=224357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n🥇 Western Copper<\/a> -4.81%
\n🚗 AutoCanada Inc.<\/a> -5.32%
\n🛍 Shopify Inc.<\/a> -4.19%
\n🍱 Goodfood Market Corp.<\/a> -4.5%
\n🛢 Tamarack Valley Energy<\/a> +5.76%
\n🛢 Imperial Oil<\/a> +4.78%
\n🅱 The Bitcoin Fund<\/a> +7.5%
\n🐦 Twitter, Inc<\/a> -15.16%
\n🚗 Tesla Motors Inc<\/a> +4.79%
\n🧫 Amgen Inc.<\/a> +2.1%
\n💾 Xilinx Inc<\/a> -3.4%
\n🧬 Lam Research Corp<\/a> -3.2%
\n🧫 BioNTech +4.8%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"