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Short Position Report
TSX Short Positions Short positions outstanding at Sept. 15/12 (with changes from Aug….
TSX Venture surges Sept. 10-14
VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index rose 41.4 points or 3.24% to close near 52-week highs at 1,318.1 points during the Sept. 10-14 trading sessions. An announcement by U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on a third…
TSX catches the QE3 wave
The next round of quantitative easing (QE) finally came and it was good news for commodity prices and the commodity heavy TSX Composite Index, which grew by 242 points to 12,499.47 points for the Sept. 10-14 period.
US stocks up on QE3, Sept. 10-14 week
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…
Short Position Report
TSX Short Positions Short positions outstanding at Aug 31/12 (with changes from Aug…
TSX Venture resumes climb
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…
TSX rallies on ECB plans, stimulus hopes
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.
U.S. equities strong performers, Sept. 3-7
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…
TSX down as market awaits QE3
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.
Venture recovery hits a snag in August 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…
U.S. equities fall slightly, Aug. 27-31
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…