{"id":63165,"date":"2025-08-18T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/18\/canadian-market-may-open-slightly-weak\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:57:35","slug":"canadian-market-may-open-slightly-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/18\/canadian-market-may-open-slightly-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Market May Open Slightly Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Lower Canadian and U.S. futures and weak European <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> point to a slightly negative start on Bay Street Monday morning. Firm commodity prices might help limit market&#8217;s downside.<\/p>\n<p>The focus will be on the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and several European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump-Putin Summit that took place in Alaska on Friday failed to result in a peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are also looking ahead to Canadian inflation data later this week, and the Jackson Hole Sympsium in Wyoming on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Data on Canadian housing starts for the month of July is due at 8.15 AM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian stocks ended roughly flat on Friday with investors focusing on Trump-Putin Summit and digesting mixed domestic economic data.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P\/TSX Composite Index traded lower for the major part of the session and closed at 27,905.49, down by 10.50 points or 0.04%.<\/p>\n<p>Asian stocks rose broadly on Monday as investors reacted to ongoing Ukraine peace talks and looked ahead to upcoming Federal Reserve Jerome Powell&#8217;s Jackson Hole speech for clues on whether the U.S. central bank will cut interest rates next month.<\/p>\n<p>The major European markets are down in negative territory in cautious trades with investors awaiting the meeting between Trump and several European leaders to find a solution to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In commodities, West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures are up $0.45 or 0.7% at $63.25 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Gold futures are up $11.80 or 0.35% at $3,394.40 an ounce, while Silver futures are gaining $0.230 or 0.58% at $38.205 an ounce. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Canadian Market May Open Slightly Weak<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-08-18 11:57:35<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Canadian and U.S. futures and weak European markets point to a slightly negative start on Bay Street Monday morning. Firm commodity prices might help limit market&#8217;s downside. The focus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}