With the TSX closed Monday, Wall Street picked up the slack by extending its pre-Christmas gains to record heights. While the Dow advanced nearly 1%, both the Nasdaq and S&P rallied 1.39%. For the S&P, it set its 69th record close for 2021. There was green across the screen, led by cars, semis and energy. Telcos were a rare weak spot during typically light holiday volumes.<\/p>\n
Among the big gainers: Tesla<\/a> 2.52%, Fortinet<\/a> 5.34%, Nvidia<\/a> 4.4%, AMD<\/a> 5.62%, Ralph Lauren<\/a> 4.23% and Meta\/Facebook<\/a> 3.26%. Other megacap tech rallied as Apple<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a> climbed 2.3%.<\/p>\n Lagging were travel names, such as Las Vegas Sands<\/a>, down 1.87% and Norwegian Cruise Lines<\/a> losing 2.55%. Meanwhile, the U.S. 10-year yield slipped to 1.482%, gold held at $1,812 an ounce while Bitcoin<\/a> advanced 1.8% to nearly $51,300. The TSX remains closed Tuesday.<\/p>\n 🚗 Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA-Q)<\/a> +2.52% With the TSX closed Monday, Wall Street picked up the slack by extending its pre-Christmas gains to record heights. While the Dow advanced nearly 1%, both the Nasdaq and S&P rallied 1.39%. For the S&P, it set its 69th record […]<\/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-258629","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\/258629","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=258629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258629\/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=258629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n💻 Fortinet Inc (FTNT-Q)<\/a> +5.34%
\n💾 Nvidia Corp (NVDA-Q)<\/a> +4.4%
\n💿 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD-Q)<\/a> +5.62%
\n🐎 Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. (RL-N)<\/a> +4.23%
\n🕵️♂️ Meta Platforms Inc \/ Facebook (FB-Q)<\/a> +3.26%
\n🍎 Apple (AAPL-Q)<\/a> +2.3%
\nⓂ Microsoft (MSFT-Q)<\/a> +2.3%
\n♠ Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS-N)<\/a> -1.87%
\n🚢 Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH-N)<\/a> -2.55%
\n🅱 Bitcoin Cash (CRYPTO:BCH)<\/a> +1.8%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"