{"id":395380,"date":"2020-02-13T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=395380"},"modified":"2020-02-13T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:23:10","slug":"north-american-stock-markets-fall-on-sharp-jump-in-reported-cases-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/research-and-markets\/north-american-stock-markets-fall-on-sharp-jump-in-reported-cases-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"North American stock markets fall on sharp jump in reported cases of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North American stock markets were pulled down by a sharp jump in the reported number of novel coronavirus cases in China.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index closed down 11.68 points at 17,821.17.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 128.11 points at 29,423.31. The S&amp;P 500 index was down 5.51 points at 3,373.94, while the Nasdaq composite was down 13.99 points at 9,711.97.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar traded for US75.44\u00a2 compared with an average of US75.45\u00a2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The March crude contract was up US25\u00a2 at US$51.42 per barrel and the March natural gas contract was down US1.8\u00a2 at US$1.83 per mmBTU.<\/p>\n<p>The April gold contract was up US$7.20 at US$1,578.80 an ounce and the March copper contract was up US1.3\u00a2 at US$2.61 a pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index closed down 11.68 points on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2312,2313],"tags":[2314],"yst_prominent_words":[2172,2174,2176,11479,14814],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395382,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395380\/revisions\/395382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395380"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=395380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}