The Canadian Vanguard Stock Market Report – Weekend, February 14 – 16, 2025
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Your Data-Driven Stock Market Analysis And Report – the investor’s readiness guide for the week of February 10 market sessions.
(Updated regularly throughout the weekend)
. Markets are CLOSED on Monday, February 17, but will reopen on Tuesday.
The Toronto Market, Friday
The TSX composite index is going through some volatility – a series of down today but up tomorrow sessions. The index on Friday declined -215.28 points or -0.84% to close the session at 25,483.23.
The Market Breadth: The Toronto market was negative on Friday and only three sectors managed to end the session with gaining. Investors apparently took refuge in the safe sectors. Utilities gained 0.33%; Telecommunications Services was up 0.20%; and Financials gained 0.06%. Technology was down a mere -0.08%. Energy and Basic Materials sector declined -2.08% and -2.56% respectively. It was quite a negative session.
Week’s Review: Only five of the sectors gained this week. Telecommunications Services was the top performer with a weekly gain of 5.07%; Technology followed with a weekly gain of 4.73%; Utilities gained 0.64%; Durable Consumer Goods & Services was up 0.11%; and Financials gained 0.09% during the week. There were no major declines for the week. The laggards this week were Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services which declined -1.03% and Healthcare which declined -1.31%.
Industry Groups: The top five industry groups at the market on Friday were: Aerospace & Defense gained 7.70%; Coal was up 4.93%; Tires & Rubber Products gained 3.96%; Office Equipment gained 3.58% and Beverages – Distillers & Wineries gained 3.27%.
Today’s Statistics: The issues that gained (Advancers) outnumbered the issues that declined (Decliners). There was one Advancer for every Decliner or a more exact ratio of 1.04-to-1.0. In real numbers, there were 973 Advancers to 930 Decliners while 147 stocks remained Unchanged.
Friday, there were 107 new 52-Week Highs and 14 new 52-Week Lows. By comparison, there were 114 new 52-Week Highs and 23 new 52-Week Lows on Thursday.
The total volume of shares traded today at the TSX was 314,018,401 or about 6% less compared to the volume of 335,072,461 shares traded on Thursday.
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The US Markets, Friday
The Dow Jones Average index reversed on Friday to decline -165.35 points or -0.84% to close at 44,546.08. The S&P 500 index declined a marginal -0.44 points or -0.01% to close at 6,114.63. The Nasdaq Composite gained 81.13 points or 0.41%, to close at 20,026.77. NASDAQ maintained the momentum and crossed the 20,000 level as we predicted. It is of course good to have some fun along the line while the main focus remains making a profit at the markets.
NASDAQ last closed above the 20,000 level on January 23, when it closed at 20,054. NASDAQ has often needed NVDA support to cross the 20,000 level the last few times the index has crossed that level. NVDA stock has advanced in nine of the last ten sessions. There is as such some momentum there to provide the needed help for NASDAQ. The market will always do what it wishes to do, however, we also deserve to occasionally feel free to create some little fun out of analyzing the market data every day. Otherwise, we might be mistaken for Charles Dickens’ famous character in his “A Christmas Carol” novel.
The Market Breadth: The US markets’ breadth was narrow-scoped on Friday. Four of the major sectors gained. Telecommunications Services, up 0.98%, was the top performer. Technology followed with 0.49% gain. Financials gained 0.38% and energy was up 0.06% to end the list of gaining sectors in that market session. Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services declined a relatively minor -0.02%; Basic Materials declined -0.59%; Healthcare declined -0.96% and Durable Consumer Goods & Services declined -1.08% bringing up the rear at the session.
Week’s Review: Nine of the eleven major sectors of the market ended this week with a weekly gain. Telecommunications Services was the top performer with a weekly gain of 3.93%; Technology followed with a weekly gain of 3.49%; Durable Consumer Goods & Services gained 2.10%; Basic Materials gained 1.80%; Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services was up 1.21%; Energy gained 1.15%; Utilities was up 0.99%; Industrials gained 0.88%; and Financials gained 0.31% this week. Healthcare declined -0.50%.
Industry Groups: The top five industry groups in the US markets today are: Tires & Rubber Products gained a portfolio boosting of 17.26%; Casinos & Gaming gained 4.69%; Consumer Electronics was up 4.05%; Rails & Roads-Passengers gained 3.54%; and Computer Hardware gained 2.82%.
Today’s Market Statistics: At the NYSE, the issues that gained (Advancers) totally outnumbered the issues that declined (Decliners). There were six Advancers for every five Decliners or an exact ratio of 1.26-to-1.0. In actual numbers, there were 1,547 Advancers to 1,230 Decliners with 70 Unchanged.
There were 262 new 52-Week Highs and 77 new 52-Week Lows. By comparison, yesterday, there were 114 new 52-Week Highs and 132 new 52-Week Lows.
The total volume of stocks traded at the NYSE today was 4,444,905,044 or 9% less, compared to the volume of 4,849,809,812 shares traded Thursday.
On the NASDAQ, the Advancers outnumbered the Decliners. There were six Advancers for every five Decliners or an exact ratio of 1.16-to-1.0. In actual numbers, 2,375 Advancers to 2,039 Decliners with 242 Unchanged.
Friday, there were 229 new 52-Week Highs and 95 new 52-Week Lows. By comparison, yesterday there were 221 new 52-Week Highs and 127 new 52-Week Lows.
The total volume of shares traded at the NASDAQ was 8,250,271,622, or 5% less, compared to the volume of 8,659,911,385 shares traded on Thursday.
After-hours action: Stock futures are up slightly on Sunday evening. Dow Jones, S&P 500 and NASDAQ futures and all up slightly this evening. Readers are reminded that the US markets are closed for President’s Day, a day holiday on Monday, February 17. The markets will open as usual on Tuesday, February 18. Gold and Oil prices, updated as of 11:30pm, Sunday evening are displayed below.
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Market Roundup Report: The indexes ended the session mixed on Friday. NASDAQ was the top performer closing positive while the Dow Jones index declined and S&P 500 was practically unchanged. Volume of shares traded was down on the other indexes except for NASADAQ continuing the trend of gaining at sessions with reduced volume and declining at sessions with increased volume. That does not encourage trust in the strength of NASDAQ index.
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