The Canadian Vanguard Stock Market Report – Weekend, Aug 15 – 17, 2025 Edition

Indexes closed well off the day’s highs but still ended up with strong gains for the week

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The Toronto Market

The TSX composite index declined -10.50 points or -0.04%, to close the session at 27,905.49. The TSX went through some volatility today but finally finished slightly shy of the previous session’s closing.

                                                                                                                                         

The Market Breadth:  Six of the ten sectors gained. Telecommunications Services, the top sector today, gained 0.91%. Basic Materials gained 0.74%, and Industrials gained 0.30%. Durable Consumer Goods & Services, yesterday’s laggard sector, gained 0.22% today. Utilities gained 0.17% and Financials gained 0.01%. Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services declined -0.31%, Energy declined -0.45% and Technology declined -0.50% bringing up the rear. Shopify Inc. (TSX: SHOP) and Celestica Inc. (TSX:CLS) declined today, and the two stocks contributed to Technology being the session’s laggard sector. The big banks, except Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS), declined today, which is reflected in Financials gaining a mere 0.01% today.

Industry Groups:  The top five industry groups in the US markets today were: Insurance – Multiline, up 10.68%; Media Diversified, up 4.26%; Chemicals – Commodity, up 3.97%; Fishing & Farming, up 3.10%; and Pharmaceuticals – Diversified, up 2.15%.

Today’s Market Statistics:  The issues that declined (Decliners) barely edged out those that gained (Advancers). There was one Advancer for every Decliner, or a more exact ratio of 1.02-to-1.0. In real numbers, there were 932 Advancers to 908 Decliners while 191 stocks remained Unchanged.

Today, there were 248 new 52-Week Highs and 12 new 52-Week Lows. There were 239 new 52-Week Highs and 11 new 52-Week Lows on Thursday.

The total volume of shares traded at the TSX today was 349,033,989, or 2% lower than the volume of 355,940,449 shares traded on Thursday.

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The US Markets

Today was another mixed market session.  Dow Jones Average index gained 34.86 points or 0.08%, to close the session at 44,946.12. The S&P 500 index declined -18.74 points or -0.29% and closed the session at 6,449.80. The Nasdaq Composite declined -87.69 points or -0.40%, and closed the session at 21,622.98. In small caps, Russell 2000 declined -12.56 points or -0.55%, and closed the session at 2286.52. The small caps have now declined for two successive sessions following two buoyant sessions. Dow was the top index today, but the gain was under 0.1%. The Dow Jones opened the session high but could not hold on to the earlier gain and ended the session closing well off the day’s high. S&P 500 and NASDAQ spent the session in the red.

The Market Breadth:  Only three of the eleven sectors gained.  Healthcare, up 1.48%, was the top sector again. Telecommunications Services was up 1.05% and Durable Consumer Goods & Services gained 0.05%. Discretionary Consumer Goods & Services declined -0.09%, Basic Materials declined -0.16% and Technology declined -0.34%. Energy declined -0.49% and Financials, the session’s laggard, declined -0.76%. It is not often that we see Financials being the laggard sector.

Industry Groups: The top five industry groups in the US markets today were: Managed Health Care, up 8.05%; Consumer Electronics, up 3.58%; Airport Services, up 1.97%; Airlines, up 1.83%; and Marine Port Services, up 1.66%.

Today’s Market Statistics

At the NYSE, the issues that declined (Decliners) outnumbered the issues that gained (Advancers). There were four Decliners for every three Advancers, or a more exact ratio of 1.33-to-1.0. In actual numbers, there were 2,333 Decliners to 1,788 Advancers with 306 Unchanged.

Today, there were 244 new 52-Week Highs and 45 new 52-Week Lows. There were 263 new 52-Week Highs and 44 new 52-Week Lows yesterday.

The total volume of stocks traded today at the NYSE was 4,668,976,979, or 1% higher than the total volume of 4,611,265,366 shares traded yesterday.

On the NASDAQ, the Decliners outnumbered the Advancers today. There were roughly three Decliners for every two Advancers, or an exact ratio of 1.37-to-1.0. In actual numbers, there were 2,670 Decliners to 1,947 Advancers with 246 Unchanged.

Today, there were 177 new 52-Week Highs and 100 new 52-Week Lows. There were 151 new 52-Week Highs and 93 new 52-Week Lows yesterday.

The total volume of shares traded at the NASDAQ today was 8,442,217,588, or 10%, one tenth, lower than the total volume of 9,435,754,505 shares traded yesterday.

Market Roundup Report

AI still dominates the news, but AI server manufacturers suffered some selling this week. Palantir Technologies Inc. and Celestica Inc. suffered three sessions of decline, but nothing major; in fact, the declines could pass for needed pullbacks after major rallies. CoreWeave Inc. suffered a major decline this week. The rally is still very much alive. Most stocks are holding on to their gains. Earlier in the week, the market appeared to be rotating away from growth stocks, but it looks like it will take some real effort to dislodge AI from its current dominant role in the market, if possible at all for now.

Oil Price: US Oil price was at $62.79 per barrel, as of the time (10:30 pm ET, Sunday) of this post update.

10 –year Treasury Yield:  The 10-year Treasury yield rose four basis points to 4.325% earlier in the day today. The 10-year yield was at 4.322%, as of the time (6:00 pm ET, Friday) of this post update.

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) is at $115,635.60, down -1.71%, as of the time (10:30 pm ET, Sunday) of this post update.

After-hours action: Stock Futures are all up slightly Sunday evening. Dow Futures is up 57.00 points or 0.13% vs. fair value. S&P 500 futures is up 11.00 points or 0.17%, and Nasdaq 100 futures is up 71.25 points or 0.30% as of the time (10:30 pm ET, Sunday) of this post update.

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