Stock Markets/Investing

The TSX Composite Index began the March 13-19 period in a rough patch, as global equity markets sagged with investor worry over slow growth in the U.S. But better than expected results from the Americ…

Tracking Global Market Swings, the March 13-19 Trading Session Marked Another Choppy Week for the Junior Mining-Dominated S&p-Tsx Venture Composite Index, Which Shed 59.34 Points to Close at 3,075…

Stock markets in the United States were mainly treading water during the period March 13-19, in advance of a new policy statement from the Federal Reserve Bank. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was…

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Demonstrating some resilience to the recent Asian stock market flu, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index gained back more than half the ground lost the previous week over the March 6-12 trading ses…

Better than expected results for five of the country’s six big banks revived the S&P-TSX Composite Index over the March 6-12 trading period, after its 5.2% fall from a record high on Feb. 26. The …

With about 60% of the world’s public mining companies listed in Canada, Standard & Poor’s and TSX Group have decided to create the S&P-TSX Global Mining Index.

Stock markets south of the line made good gains during the reporting period March 6-12, as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 32.48 points, or 2.4%, to 1,406.60.

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In a week that included an 8.8% sell-off within China’s Shanghai Composite Index, there was little to be gained in the markets during the Feb. 27-March 5 trading period. The TSX Composite Index felt t…

The Asian stock market correction prompted a major retraction in the resource sector over the Feb. 27-March 5 trading session as investors wondered if the region’s hunger for commodities would wane. T…