A busy trading week began positively with both crude oil and stocks rising. WTI jumped 2.4% to nearly $79 a barrel as energy led gains on the TSX. The Canadian exchange advanced 0.15% as real estate also rallied, but utilities and consumer discretionary lagged.
Major movers were Cenovus up 2.74%, Imperial Oil 2.69%, and Nutrien 2.67%, though Aritzia slid 3.88% and TC Energy sank 2.57% after divesting some assets.
The Wall Street rally continued to broaden beyond tech as the Dow rose 0.52% to almost 35,500. Financials, for instance, continued to show strength. The Dow outperformed the Nasdaq which inched up 0.19% to stay above 14,000, and outpaced the S&P which climbed 0.4%. Key movers included Tesla, up 3.4%, Intuitive Surgical slipping 3.93%, Bank of America rising 1.84%, and Becton Dickinson jumping 5.89%. However, AMC soared 32.73% after a court blocked the theatre chain from converting preferred equity shares into regular ones. Plus, there were tailwinds from strong opening weekends for heavily marketed movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Meanwhile, the U.S. 10-year yield inched up to 3.874% though Bitcoin sank 3.35% to $29,000. Investors will be busy this week processing key earning reports from megatech stocks such as Microsoft and the latest Fed decision on Wednesday.