{"id":429426,"date":"2026-01-24T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429426\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:38:08","slug":"the-globes-stars-and-dogs-for-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429426\/","title":{"rendered":"The Globe\u2019s stars and dogs for the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

S\u00e9bastien Thibault\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

A humorous look at the companies that caught our eye, for better or worse, this week<\/p>\n

Natural gas February futures (STAR) <\/p>\n

NGG26<\/a><\/p>\n

Cold enough for ya? You won\u2019t hear any complaints from natural gas investors. With a deep freeze settling over much of North America, the price of the furnace fuel soared 75 per cent over three days \u2013 putting it on pace for its biggest weekly gain in more than 30 years, according to Bloomberg. As you\u2019re scraping the ice from your windshield and losing any feeling in your fingers and toes, take heart that someone is actually enjoying this.<\/p>\n

Netflix Inc. (DOG)<\/p>\n

NFLX-Q<\/a><\/p>\n

Netflix landed 18 Oscar nominations<\/a> this week, including Best Picture nods for Frankenstein and Train Dreams. Netflix\u2019s stock, on the other hand, looks like a shoo-in for Worst Performance by a Publicly-Traded Streaming Service. Already down sharply amid investor worries about the company\u2019s risky US$82.7-billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix\u2019s shares sank to a 52-week low after the streaming giant projected that revenue growth will slow to about 13 per cent in 2026, down from 16 per cent in 2025. Who needs horror movies when you can scare yourself silly just looking at Netflix\u2019s stock chart?<\/p>\n

Moderna Inc. (STAR)<\/p>\n

MRNA-Q<\/a><\/p>\n

Pop quiz! Shares of vaccine maker Moderna rose after: a) The World Health Organization identified a new COVID-19 variant, believed to have originated in feral cats, that makes people meow and purr uncontrollably; b) U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the government plans to buy Moderna \u201cso we can fire everyone and shut down its operations before any more lives are needlessly saved\u201d; c) Moderna said a five-year follow-up study found that its skin cancer vaccine, when combined with Merck\u2019s immunotherapy drug Keytruda, reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49 per cent in patients with high-risk melanoma. Answer: c. <\/p>\n

Telesat Corp. (DOG)<\/p>\n

TSAT-T<\/a><\/p>\n

True or false? When creditors feel mistreated, they rarely turn to the courts. Answer: false. Shares of Telesat dropped after lenders filed suit against the Ottawa-based satellite operator, alleging it illegally moved a 62-per-cent equity stake in its \u201ccrown-jewel\u201d low-Earth-orbit satellite business to an indirect subsidiary beyond the reach of creditors. Telesat, which is facing US$1.7-billion of maturing debt in December and another roughly US$450-million in 2027, said the lawsuit is \u201cwithout merit\u201d and the equity distribution was done \u201cin strict accordance with relevant debt agreements and applicable law.\u201d Somewhere, lawyers are smiling. <\/p>\n

Gold (STAR)<\/p>\n

GCG26<\/a><\/p>\n

There once was a metal called gold<\/p>\n

Whose gains were a thing to behold<\/p>\n

With a fresh record high<\/p>\n

Traders started to cry<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is no time for people to fold!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: S\u00e9bastien Thibault\/The Globe and Mail A humorous look at the companies that caught…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1397,49,48,361,14537,75,178945,178944],"class_list":["post-429426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-appwebview","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-chartoftheday","tag-entertainment","tag-stars-and-dogs","tag-starsanddogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429426","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=429426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}