The Stock Market: The Stock Market Crash in the Stock Market

The merciless arithmetic of investing in commodity producers is imposing itself on many a portfolio: Copper down a few percentage points; copper stocks cut in half. It’s nice when the swing works in your favour; when it’s conspiring against your wealth, it’s an agony not even the Marquis de Sade could dream up. The bad [...]

  Canada’s benchmark stock index was showing moderate gains at midday Wednesday as continued gains in the price of oil offset a drop in the price of gold. The S&P/TSX composite index was ahead by 19 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 13,352, with the financials and energy sectors leading the advance. The price of [...]

Toronto Stock Market Crash 2008 The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Dow Jones continued their decline on Tuesday, posting triple-digit losses after the closing bell rang. Talk of interest rate cuts intensified as the losses piled up. Despite an early morning upswing of 250 points, the S&P/TSX composite index finished at a loss of 400.88 [...]

It was another week of worsts: The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index suffered its worst weekly loss in almost 70 years. The Canadian dollar had its biggest one-day drop in almost 40 years. As hundreds of billions in bailout money fails to stem investor panic, a look at some of the questions on the minds [...]