{"id":312365,"date":"2025-11-28T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312365\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:05:13","slug":"before-the-bell-what-every-canadian-investor-needs-to-know-today-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312365\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Bell: What every Canadian investor needs to know today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equities<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Global stocks headed into a jittery final session of the month as an outage at exchange operator CME Group halted trading in many futures on currencies, commodities, Treasuries and stocks, further draining market liquidity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The outage at CME data centres came with U.S. investors due to return from the Thanksgiving holiday for a shortened session on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Wall Street futures were in positive territory after CME restored service. At 8:45 a.m. ET, Dow futures were up 0.17 per cent, S&amp;P 500 futures rose 0.21 per cent and Nasdaq futures were 0.32 per cent higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">TSX futures were steady as investors eyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-canada-gross-domestic-product-third-quarter-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-canada-gross-domestic-product-third-quarter-2025\/\">domestic GDP data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Canada\u2019s economy grew at a much faster pace than expected in the third quarter as crude oil exports and government spending boosted over all economic activity even as business investments and household consumption disappointed, the data showed. The annual rate came in at 2.6 per cent, beating 0.5-per-cent growth estimates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">U.S. stock and bond markets will close in early afternoon after the Thanksgiving holiday yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cUsually you expect volatility in September and October, we\u2019ve had it in November, but recovered most of it,\u201d Lombard Odier economist Samy Chaar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cWe were pricing the probability of a [Fed interest rate] cut in December of around 30 per cent and we\u2019re now over 80 per cent. And that, I think, is a very strong reason for the month-end rally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/article-wall-streets-week-ahead-investors-on-watch-for-ai-economic-updates-as\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street\u2019s week ahead: Investors on watch for AI, economic updates as U.S. stocks steady<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Overseas, the pan-European STOXX 600 was up 0.12 per cent. Britain\u2019s FTSE 100 rose 0.13 per cent, Germany\u2019s DAX gained 0.21 per cent and France\u2019s CAC 40 advanced 0.16 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In Asia, Japan\u2019s Nikkei closed 0.17 per cent higher, while Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng slid 0.34 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Commodities<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Brent crude oil futures were largely unchanged as drawn-out Russia-Ukraine peace talks kept geopolitical risks elevated, while traders kept one eye on the outcome of an OPEC+ meeting on Sunday for clues about potential output changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Front-month Brent crude futures for January, which expire on Friday, were down 0.2 per cent to US$63.20 a barrel. The more active February contract traded at US$62.80, down 7 US cents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures resumed trading after being frozen due to the CME system outage, opening at US$58.90 a barrel, up 0.43 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThe market is caught between there being no immediate sanctions relief for Russia, but as slow as negotiations are, there being hope for a future settlement,\u201d said PVM Oil Associates\u2019 analyst John Evans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In other commodities, spot gold rose 0.4 per cent to US$4,174.15 an ounce. U.S. gold futures are trading again after the CME outage and are up 0.3 per cent at US$4,215.30.<\/p>\n<p>Currencies and bonds<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The Canadian dollar strengthened against its U.S. counterpart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The day range on the loonie was 71.16 US cents to 71.47 US cents in early trading. The Canadian dollar was up about 0.11 per cent against the greenback over the past month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The U.S. dollar index, which weighs the greenback against a group of currencies, advanced 0.04 per cent to 99.63. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The euro dropped 0.11 per cent to US$1.1583. The British pound declined 0.1 per cent to US$1.3228. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In bonds, the yield on the U.S. 10-year note was last down at 3.997 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Economic news<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Japan jobless rate, retail sales and industrial production<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Germany unemployment, retail sales and CPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">8:30 a.m. ET: Canada\u2019s real GDP for the third quarter, which grew an annualized 2.6 per cent, beating the 0.5 per cent estimate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">8:30 a.m. ET: Canada\u2019s monthly real GDP for October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Also: Ottawa\u2019s budget balance<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">With Reuters and The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Equities Global stocks headed into a jittery final session of the month as an outage at exchange operator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3244,45,49,48,3245,3237,3240,2640,3242,3246,166,3247,3241,3239,3243,3238],"class_list":["post-312365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-dollar","tag-dow-jones","tag-equities","tag-futures","tag-gold","tag-loonie","tag-nasdaq","tag-newnewsletter","tag-oil","tag-sd","tag-silver","tag-tsx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}