{"id":344733,"date":"2026-03-06T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=344733"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:24:40","slug":"war-sinks-markets-for-friday-and-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/war-sinks-markets-for-friday-and-week\/","title":{"rendered":"War sinks markets for Friday and week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ongoing US-Israel invasion of Iran, plus a weak U.S. jobs report pressured markets on Friday and finished in the red for the week. Jobless numbers were far lower than expected. The S&P closed the session -1.33%, the Nasdaq -1.59% and the Dow -0.95%. For the week, the S&P lost 2%, the Dow fell 3% and the Nasdaq slipped 1.25%. Major movers: Boeing<\/a> 4.08%, Nvidia<\/a>\u00a0-3.01%, Intel<\/a> -5.51%, Teradyne<\/a> -10.65% and Corning<\/a> -8.57%. Bitcoin<\/a> tumbled 4.25% to US$68,125. The U.S. 10-year yield held at 4.14%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TSX lost 3.66% for the week and 1.57% on Friday. Discretionary, industrials and financials led 10 sectors down. Of note were Aecon<\/a> up 7.53%, Constellation Software<\/a> 5.95%, Cenovus<\/a> -3.3%, Methanex<\/a> -13.42% and Algonquin Power<\/a> -11.55%. Silver climbed 2.45% to US$84, gold added 1.75% to US$5,170 while WTI spiked another 12.25% US$90.95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🛫 Boeing (BA-N)<\/a> +4.08%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

💾 NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA-Q)<\/a> -3.01%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

💾 Intel (INTC-Q)<\/a> -5.51%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🧬 Teradyne Inc (TER-Q)<\/a> -10.65%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

⚙ Corning Inc (GLW-N)<\/a> -8.57%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🅱 Bitcoin (BTCUSD) (CRYPTO:BTC)<\/a> -4.25%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

⚙ Aecon Group Inc (ARE-T)<\/a> +7.53%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

💾 Constellation Software Inc. (CSU-T)<\/a> +5.95%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🛢 Cenovus Energy (CVE-T)<\/a> -3.3%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🧫 Methanex Corp (MX-T)<\/a> -13.42%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

💡 Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (AQN-T)<\/a> -11.55%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ongoing US-Israel invasion of Iran, plus a weak U.S. jobs report pressured markets on Friday and finished in the red for the week. Jobless numbers were far lower than expected. The S&P closed the session -1.33%, the Nasdaq -1.59% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":343920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-344733","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\/344733","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344735,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344733\/revisions\/344735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}