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This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Robert McWhirter, including goeasy (A Top Pick Apr 29/19, Down 21%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. Stocks rebounded Friday to end […]

Markets on both sides of the border were flat or modestly negative until a mid-afternoon report stated that President Biden will double the capital gains tax on Americans earning more than $1 million. The Nasdaq and Dow both closed -0.94% […]

After two days of selling, stocks rebounded Wednesday as positive earnings on both sides of the border lifted investor sentiment. Worries about the Covid situation outside the U.S. were set aside as Rogers and Metro delivered quarterly beats on the […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Lorne Steinberg, including BP PLC (A Top Pick May 07/19, Down 45%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. On Tuesday, stocks broadly […]

After Friday’s record highs, New York and Toronto indices pared back those gains Monday before the heart of earnings season arrives. The Nasdaq surrendered nearly 1%, the S&P about half that and the Dow a third. Energy was modestly up, […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Zachary Curry, including JP Morgan Chase & Co (A Top Pick Jun 04/19, Down 17%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. It […]

There was green across screens Thursday as American bank earnings continued to impress as the U.S. continues to reopen. Both cyclical and growth names surged in Toronto and New York. The Dow climbed 0.9% to break 34,000 while the S&P […]

Markets on both sides of the border closed on weakness Wednesday and were in the red, apart from the Dow which inched up 0.16%. Tech gave up yesterday’s gains as the Nasdaq closed -1% and high-flyers Zoom and Tesla both […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Rick Stuchberry, including Box, Inc. (A Top Pick May 06/19, Down 23%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. The TSX was flat […]

The trading week began with light volumes and a show-me attitude as investors waited for the latest round of earnings to be released in the U.S. The S&P finished flat Monday while the TSX, Dow and Nasdaq closed slightly in […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by John Hood, including BMO EqWt US HthCare Hedged CAD (A Top Pick Apr 02/19, Down 2%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. […]

On Thursday, investor optimism remained up, the VIX was down, and the TSX and S&P made new record highs. America’s strong vaccination rate, plus high amounts of cash sitting on the sidelines, continued to fuel the Wall Street rally. The […]

Wednesday’s session was a lot like Tuesday’s as American indices were more or less flat while the TSX modestly rose. Though Ontario reverted to a strict lockdown, Bay Street is looking past the current spike in Covid cases (driven by […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by David Fingold, including Elbit Systems (A Top Pick May 27/19, Down 13%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. On Tuesday, the TSX […]

Investor and consumer confidence inspired markets to rally to begin the week. On Thursday, the U.S. reported strong employment numbers as the country added the most jobs in seven months. Then today, Monday, the ISM manufacturing numbers for March came […]

As the U.S. 10-year Treasury tumbled 3.75% to 1.6752%, tech as well as reopening stocks rallied on both sides of the border to end the week. There was an unexpected increase in weekly jobless claims, but American manufacturing soared to […]

The first quarter ended on a largely positive note Wednesday. Canada’s economy expanded for a ninth-straight month, based on new January data, and impressing Bay Street. The TSX ticked up 0.13%, lifted by tech and materials while telcos and financials […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Kim Bolton, including Tableau Software, Inc. (A Top Pick Mar 04/19, Up 35%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. The benchmarks traded […]

It was a relatively quiet start to the trading week as markets dipped negative Monday morning, but climbed in the afternoon to mixed results. The S&P lost a few points, but essentially finished flat as the Dow rose 0.3% to […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Jaime Carrasco, including Valens Groworks Inc. (A Top Pick Mar 15/19, Down 24%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. Markets rallied–and the […]

Thursday saw another wild session as the benchmarks in Toronto and New York sank in the morning, then rallied in the afternoon, particularly in the dying minutes. What looked like a negative day turned into a 0.52% gain for the […]

A choppy Wednesday session saw the indices trading positively for the day until the dying minutes. The Dow closed flat, but the S&P finished -0.55% and the TSX -0.22%, while the Nasdaq plunged 2%. Zoom Video (-7.3%), Peloton (-10.2%) and […]

This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Josef Schachter, including High Arctic Energy Services Inc (A Top Pick Mar 28/19, Down 80%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. Exactly […]

Markets began the week reverting to one of two recent scripts: the U.S. 10-year Treasury slipping 2.7% to 1.684% while tech rallied. Not only tech, but the Dow rose 0.32% and the S&P advanced 0.7%. The Nasdaq enjoyed the steepest […]