A late-day rally helped keep the winning streak alive for equities during Wednesday’s session on the Canadian Markets. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange gained 0.81%, while the TSX Gold Index surged 8.9% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, added 1.48% with the advancers edging out the decliners by a 353 to 349 margin on volume of 114 million shares traded.

The Canadian Markets gave back much of Tuesday’s record breaking gains on the big board but investors continued to gobble up the more speculative stocks on the junior bourse during Wednesday trading.