{"id":290586,"date":"2022-08-19T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=290586"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:23:05","slug":"risk-off-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/risk-off-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk-off Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkish signals from the U.S. Fed in recent days that it will hike interest rates pressured stocks on Friday. The S&amp;P closed the session -1.29% and 1.2% for the week, the Nasdaq -2.% and -2.7% for the week, and the Dow -0.86% though was flat for the week. Tech and growth led the sell-off while energy led gains.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street winners included <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/1513\/OXY-N\">Occidental<\/a> which jumped 9.57% after Warren Buffett bought 50% of the company. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/529\/GM-N\">GM<\/a> advanced 2.76% and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/7160\/WBD-Q\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> added nearly 4%. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/67\/AMZN-Q\">Amazon<\/a> closed -2.92%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/7016\/META-Q\">Meta<\/a> -3.84%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5774\/ETSY-Q\">Etsy<\/a> -6.47% and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/59\/AMD-Q\">AMD<\/a> -4.3%. However, that paled next to the 42.35 plunge by meme stock <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/129\/BBBY-Q\">Bed bath &amp; Beyond<\/a> after its biggest shareholder, Ryan Cohen, sold his entire stake. The 10-year yield climbed to 2.974%.<\/p>\n<p>Things were less dramatic in Toronto though the TSX closed -0.76% for the day. Oil&#8217;s recent comeback cushioned the TSX&#8217;s fall as it shed only 68 points for the week and stayed above 20,000. WTO held at $90 a barrel and ticked down slightly after a choppy day. Utilities and telcos were the rare bright spots. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/707\/K-T\">Kinross Gold<\/a> added 2%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/2175\/BIR-T\">Birchcliff Energy<\/a> 4.26% and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/3094\/BIP-N\">Brookfield Infrastructure<\/a> 2.13%. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5093\/SHOP-T\">Shopify<\/a> sank nearly 7%. <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/1424\/BTE-T\">Baytex<\/a> closed -3.27%, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/3644\/CVE-T\">Cenovus<\/a> -1.99% and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/2802\/AC-T\">Air Canada<\/a> -4.56%. Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/6966\/CRYPTOBTC\">Bitcoin<\/a> slid nearly 9% to $21,300.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f6e2; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/1513\/OXY-N\">Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY-N)<\/a> +9.57%<br \/>\n&#x1f698; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/529\/GM-N\">General Motors Corporation (GM-N)<\/a> +2.76%<br \/>\n&#x1f4fa; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/7160\/WBD-Q\">Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD-Q)<\/a> +4%<br \/>\n&#x1f4e6; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/67\/AMZN-Q\">Amazon.com (AMZN-Q)<\/a> -2.92%<br \/>\n&#x1f575;&#xfe0f;&#x200d;&#x2642;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/7016\/META-Q\">Meta Platforms, Inc. (META-Q)<\/a> -3.84%<br \/>\n&#x1f6cd; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/5774\/ETSY-Q\">Etsy Inc. (ETSY-Q)<\/a> -6.47%<br \/>\n&#x1f4be; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/59\/AMD-Q\">Advanced Micro Devices (AMD-Q)<\/a> -4.3%<br \/>\n&#x1f6cf; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/129\/BBBY-Q\">Bed Bath &amp; Beyond (BBBY-Q)<\/a> -42.35%<br \/>\n&#x1f947; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/707\/K-T\">Kinross Gold (K-T)<\/a> +2%<br \/>\n&#x1f6e2; <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/2175\/BIR-T\">Birchcliff Energy Ltd. 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The S&amp;P closed the session -1.29% and 1.2% for the week, the Nasdaq -2.% and -2.7% for the week, and the [&hellip;]<\/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-290586","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\/290586","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=290586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290586\/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=290586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}