The Canadian Vanguard Stock Market Report – Weekend July 18 – 20, 2025 Edition

Markets dip, rally remains strong

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The Toronto Market

The TSX composite index dropped -72.92 points or -0.27%, to close the session at 27,314.01. The TSX declined today after two consecutive sessions of gains.

                                                                                                                

The Market Breadth: The market was a bit negative today, and only three of the ten major sectors gained. Durable Consumer Goods & Services, up 0.88%, was the top sector, while Telecommunications Services, down -1.03%, was bringing up the rear. Utilities was up 0.57%, and Energy gained 0.37%. Technology and Basic Materials declined -0.27% and -0.34% respectively. All the other sectors declined. Retail stocks did not do well today. Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services, a top performer on Thursday, declined -1.03% on Friday.

Industry Groups:  The top five industry groups in the TSX today were: Fishing & Farming, up 5.87%; Chemicals – Specialty, up 5.46%; Tires & Rubber Products, up 3.30%; Beverages – Non-Alcoholic, up 3.12%; and Chemicals – Agriculture, up 2.62%.

Today’s Market 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 1.2-to-1.0. In real numbers, there were 1,047 Advancers to 868 Decliners while 176 stocks remained Unchanged.

Today, there were 276 new 52-Week Highs and 13 new 52-Week Lows. There were 274 new 52-Week Highs and 17 new 52-Week Lows on Thursday.

The total volume of shares traded at the TSX today was 323,366,040, or 10%, one-tenth, less than the volume of 359,493,018 shares traded on Thursday.

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The US Markets

Today was a mixed session with only the Dow Jones index clearly declining. The Dow Jones Average index declined -142.30 points or -0.32%, to close the session at 44,342.19. The S&P 500 index declined a marginal -0.57 points or -0.01% to close at 6,296.79. The Nasdaq Composite gained 10.01 points or 0.05%, to close the session at 20,895.65. In small caps, Russell 2000 declined  -13.68 points or -0.61% to close the session at 2240.01. Today, the Small Caps did better than the blue chips.

Today’s Market Statistics 

At the NYSE, the issues that declined (Decliners) outnumbered the issues that gained (Advancers). There were six Decliners for every five Advancers, or a more exact ratio of 1.22-to-1.0. In actual numbers, there were 2,226 Decliners to 1,829 Advancers with 296 Unchanged.

Today, there were 346 new 52-Week Highs and 70 new 52-Week Lows. There were 345 new 52-Week Highs and 47 new 52-Week Lows on Thursday.

The total volume of stocks traded today at the NYSE was 5,244,443,517, or 6% less than the total volume of 5,576,683,218 shares traded on Thursday.

On the NASDAQ, the Decliners outnumbered the Advancers. There were roughly three Decliners for every two Advancers, or an exact ratio of 1.49-to-1.0. In actual numbers, there were 2,713 Decliners to 1,822 Advancers with 264 Unchanged.

Today, there were 247 new 52-Week Highs and 61 new 52-Week Lows. There were 235 new 52-Week Highs and 47 new 52-Week Lows on Thursday.

The total volume of shares traded at the NASDAQ today was 9,627,123,683, or 6% less than the total volume of 10,273,553,286 shares traded on Thursday.

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Financials had a good week, but took a break Friday, with a minor pullback. Financials was the top sector yesterday, Thursday, but was marginally in the red, -0.03%, today.

 

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