Benign inflation news cleared the way Tuesday for stock markets all over North America to move freely upward, with Canadian stocks led by real-estate and health concerns.
The TSX Composite strengthened 314.58 points, or 1.6%, to conclude Tuesday at 20.023.77.
The Canadian dollar zoomed 0.57 cents at 73.03 cents U.S.
Real-estate stocks mounted the charger Tuesday, with Tricon Capital surging 75 cents, or 7.7%, to $10.30, while Colliers International popped $7.57, or 5.7%, to $141.03.
In health-care issues, Chartwell Retirement Residences jumped 48 cents, or 4.6%, to $10.88, while Bausch Health Companies grabbed 25 cents, or 2.8%, to $9.27.
Gold stocks did well, as Iamgold improved 15 cents, or 5%, to $3.15, while Novagold added 40 cents, or 8%, to $5.43.
In corporate news, a Glencore-led consortium agreed to buy Teck Resources’ steel-making coal unit for $9 billion, making it one of the mining sector’s most significant deals in years. Teck shares shed earlier gains and moved into minus territory 17 cents to $50.14.
ON BAYSTREET
The TSX Venture Exchange gained 5.84 points, or 1.1%, to 516.95.
All 12 TSX subgroups gained ground Tuesday, led by real-estate, scaling 4.4% higher, while gold brightened 4.1%, and health-care haler by 3%.
ON WALLSTREET
Stocks rallied Tuesday, building on their strong November gains, as Wall Street cheered new U.S. inflation data that raised hope of the Federal Reserve wrapping up its rate-hiking campaign.
The Dow Jones Industrials skyrocketed 489.83 points, or 1.4%, to 34,827.70.
The S&P 50 index was hoisted 84.15 points, or 1.9%, to 4,495.70.
The NASDAQ soared 326.64 points, or 2.4%, to 14,094.38.
Tuesday’s gains added to an already stellar performance this month for stocks. The S&P 500 had taken on 7.4%, and Dow is up 5.6% in November. The NASDAQ is up 9.8%, on pace for its biggest one-month gain since January.
Bank stocks such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo jumped on the hope that the economy could skirt a recession.
Shares of Home Depot, which were up nearly 6% on better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, led the gains for the Dow. Enphase Energies, Boston Properties and SolarEdge Technologies — each up more than 9% — led the S&P higher.
CPI was flat last month, while economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 0.1% month over month. So-called core CPI, which strips out food and energy prices, was also lower than expected and the slowest in two years. This instilled optimism into the market that the Federal Reserve was finally making headway in its fight against inflation.
Following the report, fed-funds futures showed traders had removed any chance of a hike in December, from 14% odds prior.
Prices for the 10-year Treasury leaped, lowering yields to 4.45% from Monday’s 4.63%. Treasury prices and yields move in opposite directions.
Oil prices faded two cents to $78.24 U.S. a barrel.
Gold prices brightened $17.20 to $1,967.40.