{"id":73076,"date":"2026-05-07T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/07\/canadian-market-might-start-positive\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:09:36","slug":"canadian-market-might-start-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/07\/canadian-market-might-start-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Market Might Start Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Hopes of Iran reaching an agreement with the U.S. and reopening the Strait of Hormuz is driving the <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> positive. The Energy sell off has eased, Brent Crude futures dropped to below $100 per barrel, reversing earlier gains.<\/p>\n<p>S&amp;P\/TSX Composite Index has closed at at 33,981.82, up 1.24 percent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Oil is sliding 5.13 points or 5.40 percent at $89.98 a barrel. Gold is surging 65.30 points or 1.36 percent at 4,58.80.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Futures is gaining 64.50 points or 1.37 percent at 4,759.40, while Silver Futures are up 4.667 points or 6.04 percent at 81.995.<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil futures is declining 4.85 points or 5.10 percent at $90.19 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. dollar climbed against the Canadian dollar.<\/p>\n<p>In the corporate sector, Enerflex (EFX.TO, EFXT) announced that the first quarter  earnings increased to $43 million from $24 million, prior year. First quarter revenue was $584 million compared to $552 million<\/p>\n<p>AtkinsR\u00e9alis Group Inc. (ATRL.TO) said on Thursday that it has inked a deal to acquire Coras Solutions Pty Ltd., an Australian defense and national security advisory consultancy services provider. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Business News<\/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 Might Start Positive<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-05-07 13:09:36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes of Iran reaching an agreement with the U.S. and reopening the Strait of Hormuz is driving the markets positive. The Energy sell off has eased, Brent Crude futures dropped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1585504256855-6718f7a693ae?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=934&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73076","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=73076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}