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After another strong bout of buying, investors elected to book some profits during Tuesday trading on the Canadian markets. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange fell 0.58%, while the TSX Gold Index dropped 1.1% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, gave back 0.40% with the advancers edging out the decliners by a 355 to 353 margin on volume of 148 million shares traded.

Amid all the gloom investors are feeling right now, South Korea has produced some sunny rays. On April 9, the Asian Tiger suggested that its economy could accelerate and that its stock market could take off.