The Canadian Vanguard Stock Market Report – Weekend, January 24 – 26, 2025

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Your Data-Driven Stock Market Analysis And Report –  the investor’s readiness guide for the week of January 20 market sessions.

(Updated regularly throughout the weekend)

The Toronto Market, Friday

The TSX composite index was up 34.41 points or 0.14% to close the market session at 25,468.49. The TSX has climbed for eight consecutive sessions, in measured steps and the index now appears well entrenched above the 25,000 level. We can now based on statistics safely predict that the index is not going back under the 25,000 level within the next three sessions. Of course the market will always do whatever it wishes to do.

                                                                                                                                 

The Market Breadth:   Six of the ten major sectors ended the market session with gains on Friday. Technology, up 0.98%, was back leading the sectors at the session. Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services gained 0.76%; Basic Materials gained 0.66%; Healthcare was up 0.43%; Telecommunications Services was up 0.37; and Financials was up 0.27%. Industrials declined -0.64%; and Energy was down -0.72 bringing up the rear.

Industry Groups:  Paper Packaging was up 4.45%; Paper Products was up 4.40%; Chemicals – Specialty was up 3.14%; Coal was up 2.87%; and Personal Services was up 2.53%.

Today’s Statistics:  Friday, the issues which gained (Advancers) outnumbered the issues which declined (Decliners). There were three Advancers for every two Decliners or a more exact ratio of 1.51-to-1.0.  In real numbers, there were 1,063 Advancers to 801 Decliners while 165 stocks remained Unchanged.

Friday, there were 165 new 52-Week Highs and 13 new 52-Week Lows. By comparison, there were 168 new 52-Week Highs and 21 new 52-Week Lows on Thursday.

The total volume of shares traded on Friday at the TSX was 320,850,599 or 3% less when compared to the volume of 329,458,881 shares traded on Thursday.

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The US Markets

The Dow Jones Index was down -140.82 points or -0.32% to close at 44,424.25. The S&P 500 index declined -17.47 points or -0.29% to close at 6,101.24. The Nasdaq Composite was down -99.38 points or -0.50%, to close at 19,954.30. We had another session with all the major indexes ending in red – declined. Nasdaq seems to have a problem maintaining the 20,000 level. Nasdaq was down 0.5% but the volume was up 12.7%. That is not a good sign. Investors are most likely dumping heavily weighted stocks within the composite index.

The Market Breadth: Six of the eleven major sectors of the markets gained on Friday in a somewhat broad-based market session. Telecommunications Services, up 0.90%, was the top performer among the sectors. Durable Consumer Goods & Services was up 0.56%; Utilities gained 0.50%; Healthcare was up 0.45%; Financials was up 0.25% and Basic Materials gained 0.17%. Technology and Energy brought up the rear declining -0.47% and -0.87% respectively at the market  session. Technology sector’s performance has become inconsistent resulting in wild market volatility. Wednesday, Technology was the top performing sector, brought up the rear on Thursday and on Friday was the second to the bottom performer.

Industry Groups:   The markets today were broad-based positive. Marine Port Services lead the industries with 4.10% gain. Leisure & Recreation gained 3.02%; Highways & Railtracks was up 2.73%; Entertainment & Production gained 2.55%; and Chemicals – agricultural gained 2.41%.

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