{"id":8703,"date":"2018-05-09T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=40b43e69971547e95bb3825187d0dfdb"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:19:26","slug":"toronto-stock-market-lower-despite-strength-in-the-energy-sector-led-by-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/09\/toronto-stock-market-lower-despite-strength-in-the-energy-sector-led-by-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto stock market lower despite strength in the energy sector led by oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Canada&#8217;s main stock index edged lower in late-morning as strength in the energy sector boosted by a higher price for oil was offset by weakness in the financial sector.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 3.95 points to 15,838.76, after 90 minutes of trading.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 17.73 points to 24,342.48. The S&amp;P 500 index was up 3.34 points to 2,675.26 and the Nasdaq composite index was down 4.17 points to 7,262.73.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar was trading at 77.74 cents US, up from an average value of 77.14 cents US on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The June crude contract was up US$1.76 to US$70.82 per barrel a day after the U.S. moved to withdraw from a nuclear accord with Iran. The June natural gas contract was unchanged at US$2.73 per mmBTU.<\/p>\n<p>The June gold contract was up US$2.60 to US$1,316.30 an ounce and the July copper contract was unchanged at US$3.06 a pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &mdash; Canada&rsquo;s main stock index edged lower in late-morning as strength in the energy sector boosted by a higher price for oil was offset by weakness in the financial sector. The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 3.95 points to 15,838.76, after 90 minutes of trading. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was [&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\/8703"}],"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=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}