Stock Markets/Investing

With the price of gold climbing to US$719 per oz., lead pushing US$1.50 per lb., and a number of exploration developments sparking market activity, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index climbed 71.5…

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Stocks continued their roller coaster ride during the Sept. 4-10 trading session as worries about a possible recession and a number of gloomy economic reports exacerbated fears that the problems in th…

A rally in gold through the US$700-per-oz. spot price level prompted modest gains in the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index over the Sept. 4-10 trading session, with the index inching up 20.56 points…

The U.S. markets were finally given some good news last week following the worst global credit and liquidity squeeze in a decade. Wall Street stocks surged on Friday, Aug. 31, after President George W…

Even though they suffered through their worst drop in three weeks on Aug. 28, Toronto stocks came out of the reporting period Aug. 28-31 with a gain of just over 1%. The TSX Composite Index gained 173…

The S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index eked out a modest gain of 15.13 points over the holiday-shortened Aug. 28-31 trading session to close at 2,647.81. Average daily trading volumes continued to re…

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Reports that the U.S. economy is slowing took some of the steam out of a rebounding TSX Composite Index during the Aug. 21-27 trading period.

Following its recent meltdown, the junior mining-dominated S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index clawed back a bit of ground over the Aug. 21-27 trading session to post a 3.3% gain, up 84.28 points at 2…