The buying of equities continued during Thursday’s session on the Canadian Markets with gains seen across the board. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange surged 3.39%, while the TSX Gold Index added 3.2% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, gained 2.37% with the advancers beating out the decliners by a 392 to 319 margin on 119 million shares traded.

Profit taking was the name of the game during Thursday trading on the Canadian Markets.