{"id":279708,"date":"2022-05-26T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=279708"},"modified":"2022-05-26T23:10:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T03:10:29","slug":"continued-strength-for-na-markets-this-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/continued-strength-for-na-markets-this-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued strength for NA markets this Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Thursday was the fifth day of gains in a row in Toronto. The TSX went up 0.73% to 20,532.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is now getting closer to making back its losses for the year. US markets continued their rise as well. The S&amp;P closed +1.99% to 4,057, and the Nasdaq +2,68% to 11,740 with almost all sectors rallying.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some of the optimism in the US came from strong earnings reports from retailers. Discount retailers <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/3903\/DLTR-Q\">Dollar Tree<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/3661\/DG-N\">Dollar General<\/a> upgraded their sales expectations for the year. They went up 20.74% and 13.71% respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/469\/M-N\">Macy\u2019s<\/a> also raised its annual profit forecast and is up 19.31%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Canada the financials, industrials, and energy stocks were the big drivers. The tech sector went up 2.38%. Big movers of the day were <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/6014\/LSPD-T\">Lightspeed Commerce<\/a> (+10.88%), <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4811\/WEED-T\">Canopy Growth<\/a> (+10.56), and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/6403\/NVEI-T\">Nuvei Corp<\/a> (+8.89%).<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f333; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/3903\/DLTR-Q\">Dollar Tree<\/a> +20.74%<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f4b5; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/3661\/DG-N\">Dollar General<\/a> +13.71%<\/p>\n<p>&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/469\/M-N\">Macy\u2019s<\/a> +19.31%<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f525; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/6014\/LSPD-T\">Lightspeed Commerce<\/a> +10.88%<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f341; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4811\/WEED-T\">Canopy Growth<\/a> +10.56<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f4bb; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/6403\/NVEI-T\">Nuvei Corp<\/a> +8.89%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was the fifth day of gains in a row in Toronto. The TSX went up 0.73% to 20,532.\u00a0 It is now getting closer to making back its losses for the year. US markets continued their rise as well. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-279708","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\/279708","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279708\/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=279708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}