U.S. stocks gained for a second consecutive week, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index up to the highest level since December 2007, as the U.S. Federal Reserve unleashed a third round of quantitative easing, or QE3, to prop up the…
TSX Short Positions Short positions outstanding at Aug 31/12 (with changes from Aug…
The TSX Venture exchange collected itself and resumed its forward march. After falling four straight days over the previous period the holiday shortened Sept. 4-7 period saw the index climb 31 points to 1,276.71 points on the back of renewed…
The S&P/TSX Composite Index gained during the Sept. 3-7 trading week to close at 12,268.01, up 319 points from where it began.
Hopes of additional stimulus measures from the U.S. Federal Reserve after news of disappointing jobs data in the month of August; the announcement by the Chinese government of a US$150 billion infrastructure building program; and news that the…
The TSX Composite Index went into the Labour Day weekend on a down turn as it shed 148 points to 11,949.26 for the Aug 27-31 period.
VANCOUVER — The mid-August rebound of the S&P TSX Venture Composite Index came to a halt in the August 27 to 31 period as four days of losses left the index down 11.14 points at 1,240.74. Volume was in line with recent weeks at an…
Hopes of further injections of liquidity from the U.S. Federal Reserve following a speech Aug. 31 by Chairman Ben Bernanke sent gold prices higher and helped stem losses on U.S. equity markets. Bernanke’s remarks that the central bank is…
VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index climbed for a second week, up 18.46 points in the August 20 to 24 period to end at 1,251.88 points after four days of gains. Volume was fairly consistent with the rest of August at an…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 ended a five-week winning streak despite glimmers of hope that the U.S. Federal Reserve may provide more stimulus and news that the European Central Bank is debating whether to set targets in…
TSX Short Positions Short positions outstanding at Aug 15/12 (with changes from July…
The S&P/TSX Composite Index slipped 7.66 points during the Aug. 20-24 trading week to close at 12,082.23.
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