{"id":395437,"date":"2020-02-14T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=395437"},"modified":"2020-02-14T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:29:04","slug":"north-american-markets-flat-to-end-second-consecutive-positive-week-since-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/research-and-markets\/north-american-markets-flat-to-end-second-consecutive-positive-week-since-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"North American markets flat to end second consecutive positive week since virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North American stock markets were relatively flat to end a second consecutive positive week since being hammered by concerns about the impact of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index closed up 27.19 points at 17,848.36, less than 25 points off its record high set Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 25.23 points at 29,398.08. The S&amp;P 500 index was up 6.22 points at 3,380.16, while the Nasdaq composite was up 19.21 points at 9,731.18.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar traded for US75.48\u00a2 compared with an average of US75.44\u00a2 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The March crude contract was up US63\u00a2 at US$52.05 per barrel and the March natural gas contract was up US1.1\u00a2 at US$1.84 per mmBTU.<\/p>\n<p>The April gold contract was up US$7.60 at US$1,586.40 an ounce and the March copper contract was down 1.35 cents at US$2.60 a pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P\/TSX composite index closed up 27.19 points<\/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\/395437"}],"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=395437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395439,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395437\/revisions\/395439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395437"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=395437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}