Stocks across the board closed lower to end a week itself marked by gradual declines. In Canada, lower oil prices and expectations of a minority government of either the Liberals or Tories dampened the TSX which declined 0.54%. Industrials were the only sector that showed any gains while staples and energy led the sell-off.<\/p>\n
Big movers were Birchcliff Energy<\/a> down 4.34%, and CNQ<\/a> and Alimentation Couche-Tard<\/a> both sliding 3%. CN<\/a> was a rare bright spotting, gaining 2.36%. Similarly, Ballard Power<\/a> surged over 5% and AutoCanada<\/a> advanced 4%.The price of WTI and WCS crude both gave back 1% to fall below $72 and $60 per barrel respectively.<\/p>\n Wall Street ended a choppy week marked by strong consumer data, corporate tax hike concerns and Delta variants worries to close markedly down. The Dow shed half-a-percent while the Nasdaq and S&P both closed -0.91%. On the Dow, healthcare was mixed while the other major sectors, including industrials and consumer, showed weakness. Dow closed -2.89%, Microsoft<\/a> -1.75% and Apple<\/a> -1.83%. However, Thermo-Fisher<\/a> soared 6.49%, Diamondback Energy<\/a> jumped 3.18% and Beyond Meat<\/a> climbed 4.34%. Meanwhile, both gold and Bitcoin were flat.<\/p>\n 🛢 Birchcliff Energy Ltd.<\/a> -4.34% Stocks across the board closed lower to end a week itself marked by gradual declines. In Canada, lower oil prices and expectations of a minority government of either the Liberals or Tories dampened the TSX which declined 0.54%. Industrials were […]<\/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-244556","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\/244556","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=244556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244556\/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=244556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n🛢 Canadian Natural Rsrcs<\/a> -3%
\n🍱 Alimentation Couche-Tard (B)<\/a> -3%
\n🚂 Canadian National R.R.<\/a> +2.36%
\n🔋 Ballard Power Systems<\/a> +5%
\n🚗 AutoCanada Inc.<\/a> +4%
\nⓂ Microsoft<\/a> -1.75%
\n🍎 Apple<\/a> -1.83%
\n🧬 Thermo Fisher Scientific<\/a> +6.49%
\n⚡ Diamondback Energy<\/a> +3.18%
\n🥩 Beyond Meat Inc.<\/a> +4.34%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"