{"id":395547,"date":"2020-02-18T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=395547"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:30:45","slug":"higher-gold-prices-prevent-toronto-stock-market-from-slipping-into-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/research-and-markets\/higher-gold-prices-prevent-toronto-stock-market-from-slipping-into-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher gold prices prevent Toronto stock market from slipping into red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s main stock index avoided slipping into the red as the price of gold hit a seven-year high.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index closed up 9.98 points at 17,858.34.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 165.89 points at 29,232.19. The S&amp;P 500 index was down 9.87 points at 3,370.29, while the Nasdaq composite was up 1.56 points at 9,732.74.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar traded for US75.43\u00a2 compared with an average of US75.48\u00a2 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The April crude contract was down US3\u00a2 at US$52.29 per barrel and the March natural gas contract was up US14.4\u00a2 at US$1.98 per mmBTU.<\/p>\n<p>The April gold contract was up US$17.20 at US$1,603.60 an ounce and the March copper contract was up 0.45 of a cent at US$2.60 a pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P\/TSX composite index closed up 9.98 points on Tuesday<\/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":[2172,2174,2176,5009,11479,14814,17668],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395547"}],"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=395547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395549,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395547\/revisions\/395549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395547"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=395547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}