{"id":8143,"date":"2018-05-01T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=96323a24e7b65c9c246407430dec7546"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:21:12","slug":"stocks-in-toronto-slip-in-broad-decline-loonie-falls-against-u-s-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/01\/stocks-in-toronto-slip-in-broad-decline-loonie-falls-against-u-s-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks in Toronto slip in broad decline, loonie falls against U.S. dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Canada&#8217;s main stock index fell in late-morning trading amid broad-based weakness on the Toronto market.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 43.91 points to 15,563.97, after 90 minutes of trading.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 271.29 points to 23,891.86. The S&amp;P 500 index was down 15.26 points to 2,632.79 and the Nasdaq composite index was down 18.93 points to 7,047.34.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar was trading at 77.49 cents US, down from an average value of 77.91 cents US on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The June crude contract was down US$1.19 to US$67.38 per barrel and the June natural gas contract was up five cents to US$2.81 per mmBTU.<\/p>\n<p>The June gold contract was down US$16.70 to US$1,302.50 an ounce and the July copper contract was down five cents to US$3.02 a pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &mdash; Canada&rsquo;s main stock index fell in late-morning trading amid broad-based weakness on the Toronto market. The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 43.91 points to 15,563.97, after 90 minutes of trading. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 271.29 points to 23,891.86. The S&amp;P 500 index was down 15.26 points to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}