The gold guys continued to be the best performers during Wednesday trading on the Canadian markets as the price of bullion broke out to the upside. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange dropped 0.91%, while the TSX Gold Index surged 7.5% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, added 1.02% with the advancing issuers edging out the decliners by a 405 to 343 margin on 163 million shares traded.

It was another sea of red during Wednesday trading on the Canadian Markets, with resource-related stocks hit hard thanks to more bad news on the global economic front. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange fell 3.05%, while the TSX Gold Index dropped 2.8% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, gave back 2.23%, with the declining issuers edging out the advancers by a 461 to 268 margin on volume of 155 million shares traded.