Short Position Report (June 05, 2006)
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Toronto Stock Exchange May 23-29
The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark rate a quarter point for the seventh time in a row, bringing the rate to 4.25% on May 24. But some market watchers believe the rate hikes may be over, and as a…
TSX Venture Exchange May 23-29
Unsettled trading saw the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index bounce off its recent drop and recover 92.9 points over the May 23-29 session to close at 2,863.63. Average daily trading volumes dried up…
U.S. Markets May 23-26
It was a modest bounce-back, but stock markets in the United States rose slightly in the holiday-shortened trading period May 23-26. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 18.09 points to 1,280.16,…
TSX runs gold index up flagpole (May 29, 2006)
Details are sketchy, but the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and rating and index agency Standard & Poor’s will develop a Global Gold Index to track the share prices of leading gold mining companies….
Toronto Stock Exchange May 16-19
A continuing slump in commodity prices dragged Toronto stocks down another 285.96 points to 11,545.77 during the holiday-shortened May 16-19 report period. The gold index had 5.8% of its value carved…
TSX Venture Exchange May 16-19
Continued precious and base metal market weakness furthered the bloodletting on the junior board over the holiday-shortened May 16-19 trading session, with the TSX Venture Composite Index falling 8.5%…
U.S. Markets May 16-22
Sharp declines in the early part of the reporting period May 16-22 socked stock markets in the United States, and the mining stocks suffered a large part of the damage. The Standard & Poor’s 500 i…
Sizing up the threat of nationalization in Bolivia (May 23, 2006)
“This is just the start,” Bolivian president Evo Morales told a crowd regarding the nationalization of the country’…
Toronto Stock Exchange May 9-15
A pullback in commodity prices dragged the TSX Composite Index down 496.48 points, or 4.2% to 11,831.73 over the May 9-15 session; the downward trend was said to be the result of price corrections aft…
TSX Venture Exchange May 9-15
Sharp corrections in commodity prices precipitated a major drop in the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index, which shed 4.7%, or 150.24 points, to close at 3,029.49 over the May 9-15 trading session. A…
U.S. Markets May 9-15
Stock markets in the United States saw heavy selling between May 10 and May 12 in response to a tightening Federal Reserve Bank, making the reporting period May 9-15 a losing one. The Standard & P…