It was slow, lazy session on the markets on Thursday as if investors were baking in the record-breaking heat outside. Volumes were unsurprisingly low as markets on both sides of the border opened weak in the morning, but gained ground into the close. Technically, the Dow made a new record high, but gained only two points, while the S&P also scaled new heights by climbing 0.3%. The Nasdaq nearly joined the record club by advancing 0.35%. Weekly U.S. jobless claims fell as expected though producer prices saw their fastest rise in a decade. Financials and especially tech offset weakness in industrials.<\/p>\n
Big gainers included Apple<\/a>, up 2%, Salesforce<\/a> by 2.52%, BioNTech<\/a> up 4.13% and the dating app Bumble<\/a> popping 6.63%. In contrast, airlines like American<\/a> dove 3.77%, rooted in worries that the Delta variant will delay or discourage travel plans. Baidu<\/a> fell 3.23% while Micron<\/a> slid 6.37%.<\/p>\n Those Delta fears pushed the price of WTI down 0.5% and WCS by 1%. In turn, it pressured the TSX slightly, which closed -0.16% albeit at session highs. Materials also swooned, but tech, as in the U.S., rallied. Enbridge<\/a> shed 2.5% as the most-traded stock as New Gold<\/a> slid 3% and Northland Power<\/a> tumbled 5.72% after releasing earnings. Winners included Well Health Technologies<\/a>, jumping over 5% and Birchcliff Energy<\/a> up 3.9%. Meanwhile, gold was flat and Bitcoin<\/a> retreated 4% below $45,000.<\/p>\n 🍎 Apple<\/a> +2% It was slow, lazy session on the markets on Thursday as if investors were baking in the record-breaking heat outside. Volumes were unsurprisingly low as markets on both sides of the border opened weak in the morning, but gained ground […]<\/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-239442","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\/239442","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=239442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239442\/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=239442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n💨 SalesForce.com Inc.<\/a> +2.52%
\n🧫 BioNTech<\/a> +4.13%
\n💑 Bumble<\/a> +6.63%
\n🛫 American Airlines Group<\/a> -3.77%
\n🈲 Baidu.com<\/a> -3.23%
\n💾 Micron Technology<\/a> -6.37%
\n🚛 Enbridge<\/a> -2.5%
\n🥇 New Gold Inc.<\/a> -3%
\n🌲 Northland Power Inc<\/a> -5.72%
\n💊 WELL Health Technologies<\/a> +5%
\n🛢 Birchcliff Energy<\/a> +3.9%
\n🅱 The Bitcoin Fund<\/a> -4%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"