Markets laid down a royal flush Monday as the major indices in New York and Toronto all made record closes, driven by continued optimism, upbeat earnings and climbing oil prices. The TSX rose 0.91% to 21,228 as WTI crude climbed 1% and WCS nearly twice as much to roughly $84 and $69 per barrel, respectively. Energy as well as tech fueled Toronto’s rally leaving real estate as the only sector in (modest) decline.<\/p>\n
Moving up were Shopify<\/a> by 4.58%, Home Capital<\/a> 5.63%, Air Canada<\/a> 3.7%, Blackberry<\/a> 5.24% and Lundin Mining<\/a> at 4.64%. Heading south were Marathon Gold<\/a> at -8.93%, Hexo<\/a> -3.33% and Cargojet<\/a> -5.51%. The Canadian dollar continued to hold steady right below 81 cents against the USD.<\/p>\n Similarly, energy rallied on the Dow while industrials also rose. The Dow nearly closed above 36,000 after advancing 0.26%. The S&P inched up 0.18% to 4,613, and the Nasdaq added 0.63% to 15,595. Big gainers were Tesla<\/a>, up 7.09%, Marathon Oil<\/a> at 4.3%, Boeing<\/a> 3.65% and AMD<\/a> by 4.16%. Meta Platforms, the stock formerly known as Facebook<\/a>, gained 2%.\u00a0 Losing ground were Alphabet<\/a> at -3%, Eli Lily<\/a> at -2.14%, Moderna<\/a> -2.33% and Affirm Holdings<\/a> -6.06%. Meanwhile, the 10-year yield edged up to 1.56%, and Bitcoin<\/a> added 1% to nearly $61,500.<\/p>\n 🛍 Shopify Inc. (SHOP-T)<\/a> +4.58% Markets laid down a royal flush Monday as the major indices in New York and Toronto all made record closes, driven by continued optimism, upbeat earnings and climbing oil prices. The TSX rose 0.91% to 21,228 as WTI crude climbed […]<\/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-251354","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\/251354","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=251354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251354\/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=251354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n🏛 Home Capital Group (HCG-T)<\/a> +5.63%
\n🛫 Air Canada (AC-T)<\/a> +3.7%
\n📱 BlackBerry (BB-T)<\/a> +5.24%
\n⛏ Lundin Mining Corp. (LUN-T)<\/a> +4.64%
\n🥇 Marathon Gold Corp (MOZ-T)<\/a> -8.93%
\n🌿 Hexo Corp (HEXO-T)<\/a> -3.33%
\n🛫 Cargojet Inc (CJT-T)<\/a> -5.51%
\n🚗 Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA-Q)<\/a> +7.09%
\n🛢 Marathon Oil (MRO-N)<\/a> +4.3%
\n✈ Boeing (BA-N)<\/a> +3.65%
\n💿 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD-Q)<\/a> +4.16%
\n🕵️♂️ Facebook (FB-Q)<\/a> +2%
\n🧮 Alphabet Inc. \/ Google (GOOG-Q)<\/a> -3%
\n💊 Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY-N)<\/a> -2.14%
\n💉 Moderna (MRNA-Q)<\/a> -2.33%
\n💾 Affirm Holdings (AFRM-Q)<\/a> -6.06%
\n🅱 Bitcoin Cash (CRYPTO:BCH)<\/a> +1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"