Indexes back in record territories, as Dow now leads the charge

 The Canadian Vanguard Stock Market Report – Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Edition

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The Toronto Market

The TSX composite index gained 72.17 points or 0.26%, to close the session at 27,993.43. The TSX index’s likelihood of crossing the 28,000-point level now looks strong and may happen soon. The market, of course, will always do what it wishes to do, so this may or may not happen soon.

                                                                                                                                                     

The Market Breadth:  Only five of the ten sectors gained. Retail stocks took the spotlight again, repeating the performance from yesterday, as Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services, up 2.07%, was the top sector. Telecommunications Services gained 1.66%, Healthcare gained 1.47%, Financials gained 0.62% and Energy gained 0.33%. Basic Materials declined -0.16%. Technology and Durable Consumer Goods & Services, the day’s sector laggards declined 0.39% and 1.47% respectively.

Industry Groups:  The top five industry groups in the US markets today were: Apparel & Accessories, up 9.52%; Personal Services, up 9.46%; Pharmaceuticals – Generic & Specialty, up 5.57%; Tires & Rubber Products, up 5.42%; and Forest & Wood Products, up 4.08%.

Today’s Market Statistics:  The issues that gained (Advancers) outnumbered those that declined (Decliners). There were roughly two Advancers for every Decliner, or a more exact ratio of 2.2-to-1.0. In real numbers, there were 1,328 Advancers to 603 Decliners while 129 stocks remained Unchanged.

Today, there were 423 new 52-Week Highs and 24 new 52-Week Lows. There were 326 new 52-Week Highs and 19 new 52-Week Lows yesterday.

The total volume of shares traded at the TSX today was 406,380,378, or 10% higher than the volume of 367,324,637 shares traded yesterday.

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Stock In The News /Stock To Watch

Retail stocks did well at the TSX today. We mentioned above, under Market Breadth,  that Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services was the top sector in the TSX today. Gildan Activewear (TSX:GIL) sealed the deal to purchase Hanes brands. The is valued at US$2.3 billion. GIL stock was up 11.78% or $7.97, closing at $75.62 with 1.53M shares traded today.

Aritzia Inc. (TSX:ATZ) is a retail stock worth adding to watchlist. The stock was always on our watchlist and  trending down a few market sessions back, but the stock appears to be back on the upswing.  ATZ stock was up 3.18% or $2.37, closing at $76.94 with 686K shares changing hands today.

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The US Markets

All the major indexes gained today, repeating yesterday’s performance. The Dow Jones Average index gained 463.66 points or 1.04%, to close the session at 44,922.27. The S&P 500 index gained 20.82 points or 0.32% and closed the market session at 6,466.58. The Nasdaq Composite gained 31.24 points or 0.14%, and closed the session at 21,713.14. In small caps, Russell 2000 gained 45.28 points or 1.98%, and closed the session at 2328.06. Today was another positive market session for small caps.

The Market Breadth:  Seven of the eleven sectors gained. The market did not come close to repeating yesterday’s performance, with all eleven sectors gaining. Healthcare, up 1.80%, was the top sector today. Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services, up 1.435, was next. Basic Materials gained 1.10% and Energy was up 0.99% today. Financials, the top sector yesterday, gained 0.45% and Technology declined -0.17%. Utilities declined -0.17%, and Durable Consumer Goods & Services, the session’s laggard, declined -0.20%. Overall, today was a positive market session, and there was no sector with a worse than 0.50% decline.

Industry Groups:  The top five industry groups in the US markets today were: Leisure Products, up 5.00%; Homebuilding, up 4.97%; Chemicals – Diversified, up 4.43%; Tires & Rubber Products, up 4.00%; and Paper Products, up 3.96%. The market may be rotating away from growth stocks to industry groups such as Homebuilding. There is not enough data to confirm this yet. We shall keep an eye on this and inform our readers as soon as the trend becomes clear and confirmed.

Today’s Market Statistics  

At the NYSE, the issues that gained (Advancers) outnumbered the issues that declined (Decliners). There were roughly four Advancers for every Decliner, or a more exact ratio of 4.04-to-1.0. In actual numbers, there were 3,336 Advancers to 824 Decliners with 264 Unchanged.

Today, there were 630 new 52-Week Highs and 56 new 52-Week Lows. There were 484 new 52-Week Highs and 60 new 52-Week Lows yesterday.

The total volume of stocks traded today at the NYSE was 5,299,338,207, or about the same as the total volume of 5,250,176,715 shares traded yesterday.

On the NASDAQ, the Advancers outnumbered the Decliners today. There were roughly five Advancers for every two Decliners, or an exact ratio of 2.62-to-1.0. In actual numbers, there were 3,351 Advancers to 1,279 Decliners with 238 Unchanged.

Today, there were 422 new 52-Week Highs and 87 new 52-Week Lows. There were 305 new 52-Week Highs and 116 new 52-Week Lows yesterday.

The total volume of shares traded at the NASDAQ today was 9,004,195,623, or 4% higher than the total volume of 8,637,059,644 shares traded yesterday.

Market Roundup Report

Oil Price: US Crude Oil price fell in response to US crude build and ahead of Trump-Putin talks. US Oil price was at $62.92 per barrel, as of the time (11:30 pm ET, Wednesday) of this post update.

10 –year Treasury Yield:  The 10-year Treasury yield was down five basis points to 4.23%.  The 10-year yield was at 4.238%, as of the time (11:30 pm ET, Wednesday) of this post update.

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was at a record high earlier today, but was at $122,023.80, down -$484.18 or -0.40%, as at the time (11:30 pm ET, Wednesday) of this post update.

After-hours action: Stock Futures are little changed, but all in red, this evening. Dow Futures is down -35.00 points or -0.08% vs. fair value. S&P 500 futures is down -8.00 points or -0.13%, and Nasdaq 100 futures is down -36.75 points or -0.15% as of the time (11:30 pm ET, Wednesday) of this post update.

 

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