TSX Venture Exchange (February 25, 2008)
On level gold and base metal prices, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index posted a 43.46- point gain over the holiday-shortened Feb. 12- 15 trading session to close at 2,584.99. Average daily tradi…
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U.S. MARKETS FEB 5-11
The U.S. Congress may have passed President George Bush’s US$168-billion economic rescue package of rebates and tax breaks last week, but the announcement did little to ease fears on Wall Street. The …
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE FEB 5-11
The TSX Composite Index managed to bounce back from a mid-week slump that saw it close as low as 12,867.20 to finish the Feb. 5-11 period at 13,258.16. But the index still recorded an overall loss, do…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE FEB 5-11
Despite further strengthening in base and precious metal prices, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index retreated 26.2 points over the Feb. 5-11 trading session, closing at 2,541.53. The junior board…
How to approach a bear: Amsterdam’s advice on Russia
Robert Amsterdam’s advice to Canadian businesses and government regarding Russia is simple: be firm. During a recent speech to members of the Economic Club of Toronto the lawyer to one of Russia’s …
Short Position Report (February 08, 2008)
TSX Short Positions Short positions ou…
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE (February 04, 2008)
The Federal Reserve Bank’s decision to make an emergency cut of 75 basis points to interest rates in the U.S. had the desired effect over the Jan. 22-28 trading period, with markets bouncing back from…
EDITOR’S PICKS: TOP STORIES OF WEEK 4
The spectacular failure of South Africa’s state-owned electricity supplier, Eskom, to provide power to the nation’s industrial sector was easily the most significant event in the global mining industr…
Toronto Stock Exchange Jan. 15-21
The TSX Composite Index hasn’t seen days this bad since 9/11. The index fell 1,500 points over the Jan. 15-21 trading period and commodities were caught up in the rout.
U.S. Markets Jan. 15-18
U.S. markets were closed on Jan. 21 for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, sparing the country’s equity markets from the massive global stock sell-off that roiled the world’s financial markets that d…
TSX Venture Exchange Jan. 15-21
Fallout from U.S. economic woes triggered precipitous drops in Canadian markets over the Jan. 15-21 trading session with the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index plummeting 13.5%, or 379.3 points, to 2…
Editorial: World’s stock markets head south
Panic in the global stock markets gripped a little tighter during the week ended Jan. 19, the third trading week of 2008, and metal prices and mining stocks were swept along in the crowd’s rush for th…