War in the Middle East and related Trump’s plan currently drive the markets
The Canadian Vanguard Stock Market Report – Thursday, June 19, 2025 Edition
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The Toronto Market
The TSX composite index declined -53.85 points or -0.20%, to close the session at 26,506.00. The TSX opened lower and remained below yesterday’s market closing value throughout the day.
The Market Breadth
Six of the ten major sectors gained in the market today. Durable Consumer Goods & Services gained 0.60%; Financials gained 0.57%; Technology gained 0.44%; Telecommunications Services gained 0.29%; Industrials gained 0.28%, and Healthcare gained 0.03%. Basic Materials declined -0.09%; Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services declined -0.42%; and Energy declined -1.01%. Energy was the laggard today, but was the top-performing sector yesterday. The market continues to go through a high degree of volatility as President Trump continues to talk about joining Israel in the Israel-Iran war.
Today’s Statistics: Today, the issues that declined (Decliners) outnumbered those that gained (Advancers). There were six Decliners for every five Advancers, or a more exact ratio of 1.22-to-1.0. In real numbers, there were 957 Decliners to 780 Advancers while 202 stocks remained Unchanged.
Today, there were 54 new 52-Week Highs and 8 new 52-Week Lows. There were 99 new 52-Week Highs and 18 new 52-Week Lows yesterday.
The total volume of shares traded at the TSX today was 158,963,020, or 59% less than the volume of 383,316,879 shares traded yesterday. The decrease in the volume of shares traded is quite low today. The decrease was largely due to the US markets were closed for the Juneteenth Independence Day Holiday, so American traders were noticeably absent.
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The US Markets
The US Markets were closed today for the Juneteenth Independence Day Holiday
Oil Price: Oil prices rose 3% as Israel vowed to intensify attacks on Iran. US Oil price was at $75.67 per barrel as of the time (11:30pm ET, Thursday) of this post update.
After-hours action: Futures were down Thursday evening. Dow Futures was down -105.00 points or -0.26% vs. fair value. S&P 500 futures was down -13.00 points or -0.22%, and Nasdaq 100 futures was down -0.19% as of the time (11:30 pm ET, Thursday) of this post update. Futures were down earlier in the evening but improved a bit later, but remain down. President Trump’s comment on the US possibly joining Israel in the Israel-Iran was is weighing negatively on the futures market.
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Stock In The News /Stock To Watch
The Toronto Market
The energy sector within the TSX is also doing well and of course the big data centers being planned to support AI delivery to the users will require huge amounts of energy which would likely be supplied by nuclear energy powered electricity generation, so companies like Cameco Corporation (TSX:CCO) should be in our watchlist. Paramount Resources (TSX:POU) is also a stock that is worth keeping an eye on, especially as the energy sector will likely continue to do well at least in the short term.
The aviation sector stocks are doing well, also. Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) and CAE Inc. (TSX:CAE) are stocks that we should possibly add to our watchlist.
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