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  • Stock market today: Wall Street holds near record levels, with S&P 500 on precipice of 5,000

    February 08, 2024 - 1:12 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks held near record levels on Wall Street as evidence kept piling up to show the job market remains remarkably solid. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% Thursday, just a few points shy of closing above the 5,000 level for the first time. The Dow rose 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% higher. The latest show of strength for the economy came from a report indicating fewer workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected. The Walt Disney Co.

  • Stock market today: Wall Street inches higher toward edge of bull market

    June 06, 2023 - 1:07 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted on Wall Street amid a vacuum of market-moving data. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 10 points while the Nasdaq added 0.4%. Banks were some of the bigger gainers, recovering from their struggles earlier this year after high interest rates helped cause several high-profile failures. The cryptocurrency world took another hit after U.S.

  • Most stocks tick up, including a jump for beaten-down banks

    March 27, 2023 - 1:07 PM

    NEW YORK - Stocks closed mostly higher on a steadying Wall Street as battered banks showed more strength, at least for now. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Averate also rose, while the Nasdaq fell. Markets have been in turmoil following the second- and third-largest U.S. bank failures in history earlier this month. Investors have been hunting for which banks could be next to fall as the system creaks under the pressure of much higher interest rates.

  • US stocks open lower as bank worries still weigh on markets

    March 24, 2023 - 6:43 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling as more worries about banks on both sides of the Atlantic tug markets lower. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% early Friday. The Dow and the Nasdaq also fell. Treasury yields dropped. Markets have been turbulent on worries that banks are weakening under pressure from higher interest rates. That’s led to rising concerns about a recession and uncertainty about what central banks will do with interest rates going forward.

  • Donation of shares gaining in popularity after a year of strong market gains

    December 16, 2021 - 8:37 AM

    TORONTO - David Brady and his spouse are ramping up their charitable donations this year by handing over some of their best-performing stocks.

  • Most actively traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange

    September 17, 2021 - 2:28 PM

    TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:

  • North American stock markets resume climb despite another drop in oil prices

    April 14, 2020 - 1:58 PM

    TORONTO - Canada's main stock index resumed its climb in a broad-based rally despite another drop in crude oil prices since the U.S. brokered a supply cut deal.

  • Goldman Sachs' earnings jump as investment banking unit has its best quarter since 2007

    April 16, 2015 - 12:16 PM

    NEW YORK, N.Y. - Goldman Sachs posted a big jump in first-quarter net income Thursday as its investment banking unit logged its best quarter since the financial crisis. Higher fees from trading bonds and currencies also helped.

  • Stock markets rise amid Chinese rate cut, stimulus hint from ECB chief Draghi

    November 21, 2014 - 1:29 PM

    TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed higher Friday, with commodity prices and resource companies advancing amid signs that central banks are prepared to step up efforts to keep the fragile global economic recovery going.

  • Quebec business community breathes sigh of relief at Liberal majority win

    April 07, 2014 - 9:08 PM

    MONTREAL - Members of Quebec's business community breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday, hopeful that a majority Liberal government will herald an era of stability marked by new investments, jobs and real estate activity in the province.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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