Stock Markets/Investing

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…

A credit crunch stemming from U.S. mortgage losses continued to roil U.S. markets this week and the impact was felt around the world. The European Central Bank, Bank of Japan and Bank of Canada all cl…

The outlook on Bay Street continued to be grim over the Aug. 14-20 trading period. The TSX Composite Index fell another 317.11 points to 13,110.34 for the period, as word that the U.S. subprime mortga…

While earlier in the week, Wall Street was pondering how un-gentle the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, Ben Bernanke, could really be, the single most important figure on the U.S. financial scene…

Market mayhem hit the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index over the Aug. 14-20 trading session, with the junior board falling 11.6% to finish the week off 334.43 points lower at 2,548.45. On Aug. 16, t…

Misery linked to the ongoing trouble in the debt market continued on United States equity markets during the reporting period Aug. 7-13. The losses were more muted, thanks to two rally days early in t…