It was a wild ride for investors during Thursday trading on the Canadian markets, with the bulls managing to beat down the bears late in the session. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange added 0.47%, while the TSX Gold Index gained another 0.7% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, tacked on 0.51% with the advancing issuers edging out the decliners by a 377 to 374 margin on 140 million shares traded.