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TSX Enjoys Triple-Digit Hike Following Fed Announcement

Published 2024-09-19, 06:29 a/m
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Baystreet.ca - Canada's main stock index opened higher on Thursday tracking a jump in global markets after the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by an oversized 50 basis points.

The TSX Composite Index bounced 142.95 points to commence trade on Thursday at 23,735.55.

The Canadian dollar poked ahead 0.07 to 73.55 cents U.S.

Pizza Pizza Royalty announced its monthly cash dividend of $0.0775 per share for September. Shares in the company gathered five cents to $13.03.

ON BAYSTREET

The TSX Venture Exchange recovered 6.62 points, or 1.2%, to 582.83.

All but two of the 12 TSX subgroups were higher, with information technology ahead 1.4%, while energy surged 1.3%, and health-care advanced 1.1%.

The two laggards proved to be utilities, down 0.6%, and consumer staples, off 0.1%.

ON WALLSTREET

Stocks rose Thursday as traders digested the Federal Reserve’s Wednesday decision to lower interest rates by a half percentage point.

The Dow Jones Industrials index ballooned 423.7 points, or 1%, to 41,926.80.

The S&P 500 piled on 90.01 points, or 1.6%, to 5,708.27.

The NASDAQ jumped 442.25 points, or 2.5%, to 18,015.91.

Traders got some validation that the Fed was engineering a soft landing for the economy on Thursday as weekly jobless claims fell by 12,000 to 219,000, which was far below estimates.

Tech stocks rallied as the rate cut spurred investors to return to a risk-on mood. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) and AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) shares popped around 5% and 4%, respectively. Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) traded more than 2% higher. Other big tech stocks such as Meta (NASDAQ:META) advanced 2.4%, and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) grew 1.9%.

Stocks leveraged to lower rates spurring the economy also jumped Thursday morning. Financial giant JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) rose 0.8%. Industrial stock Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) tallied 2.6%, and Home Depot (NYSE:HD) gained 1.5%.

The Fed slashed its overnight lending rate to a range of 4.75% to 5% from 5.25% to 5.5% on Wednesday, which came as a surprise to some investors who criticized the size of this initial cut. This is the first rate reduction delivered by the Fed in four years.

Prices for the 10-year Treasury sagged, lifting yields to 3.74% from Wednesday’s 3.71%. Treasury prices and yields move in opposite directions.

Oil prices took on 56 cents to $71.42 U.S. a barrel.

Gold prices nosed up 10 cents to $2,598.70.

This content was originally published on Baystreet.ca

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