{"id":395631,"date":"2020-02-19T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=395631"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:32:30","slug":"tsx-sets-new-record-high-on-rally-led-by-energy-and-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/research-and-markets\/tsx-sets-new-record-high-on-rally-led-by-energy-and-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"TSX sets new record high on rally led by energy and materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s main stock index set a new record high in a broad-based rally led by the key energy and materials sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index gained 67.02 points to a record close of 17,925.36.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 115.84 points at 29,348.03. The S&amp;P 500 index was up 15.86 points at 3,386.15, while the Nasdaq composite was up 84.44 points at 9,817.18.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar traded for US75.58\u00a2 compared with an average of US75.43\u00a2 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The April crude contract was up US$1.20 at US$53.49 per barrel and the March natural gas contract was down 2.6 cents at US$1.96 per mmBTU.<\/p>\n<p>The April gold contract was up US$8.20 at US$1,611.80 an ounce and the March copper contract was up 0.2 of a cent at US$2.61 a pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. markets were also up on Wednesday<\/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":[2172,2174,2176,11479,14814,17445,17668],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395631"}],"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=395631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395633,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395631\/revisions\/395633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395631"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=395631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}