{"id":8905,"date":"2018-05-10T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=84605efc20ffdbedea311d915992e590"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:19:16","slug":"materials-sector-helps-lift-tsx-at-late-morning-loonie-climbs-above-78-cents-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/materials-sector-helps-lift-tsx-at-late-morning-loonie-climbs-above-78-cents-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials sector helps lift TSX at late-morning; Loonie climbs above 78 cents US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; The materials sector helped lift Canada&#8217;s main stock index in late-morning trading, while the Canadian dollar climbed above 78 cents US.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 40.48 points to 15,951.29, after 90 minutes of trading.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 149.51 points to 24,692.06. The S&amp;P 500 index was up 14.62 points to 2,712.41 and the Nasdaq composite index was up 43.26 points to 7,383.17.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar was trading at 78.05 cents US, up from an average value of 77.78 cents US on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The June crude contract was down 15 cents to US$70.99 per barrel and the June natural gas contract was up six cents to US$2.80 per mmBTU.<\/p>\n<p>The June gold contract was up $5.20 to US$1,318.20 an ounce and the July copper contract was up five cents to US$3.11 a pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &mdash; The materials sector helped lift Canada&rsquo;s main stock index in late-morning trading, while the Canadian dollar climbed above 78 cents US. The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 40.48 points to 15,951.29, after 90 minutes of trading. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 149.51 points to 24,692.06. The S&amp;P 500 [&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\/8905"}],"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=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8906,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}