It was another quiet Friday news day on the Canadian Markets with investors laying down bets that the worst of the economic news is now behind us.
It was another upbeat session for the Canadian Markets during Tuesday trading with investors continuing to pick up resource related equities. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange added 2.01%, while the TSX Gold Index finally rallied adding 1.9% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, tacked on 4.42% with the advancing issuers beating out the decliners by a 540 to 278 margin on volume of 197 million shares traded.
It was an up and down session on the Canadian markets during Thursday trading, as gains on the coal front were offset by losses in the gold stocks.