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| BSE Sensex | 18,719.29 | -526.41 (-2.74%) |
| KOSPI | 1,850.49 | -37.82 (-2.00%) |
Markets roiled over news from US Federal Reserve; gold slides, dollar surges
LONDON -- Markets were roiled Thursday by a suggestion from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the central bank may be done with its monetary stimulus next year.
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Top stories
Wind Mobile's foreign owner may be pulling out of a deal to gain full control of the company but the prospects for consolidation of Canada's small wireless providers remain more or less the same - that is to say, up in the air.
The new Governor of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz, makes his first public appearance at an Oakville Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday.
Imperial Oil Ltd. will close its 95-year-old Dartmouth, N.S., oil refinery and eliminate most of the 400 high-paying jobs it provides in the Halifax area - victims of too much refining capacity in the Atlantic basin and the high cost of imported crude.
TORONTO - An anticipated financial recovery south of the border is likely to help economic growth in Canada, economists said Wednesday, although the U.S.
The UNESCO world heritage committee says a monitoring mission should be sent to Gros Morne National Park to assess fracking risks.
Trends
| Gainers | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| BBD.B | Bombardier, Inc. | 1.54% | 8.13B |
| TOU | Tourmaline Oil Corp | 1.19% | 7.69B |
| PLB | Paladin Labs Inc. | 1.16% | 1.08B |
| MFC | Manulife Financial Corp. | 1.04% | 30.59B |
| CSU | Constellation Software Inc. | 0.88% | 3.08B |
| Losers | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| ATH | Athabasca Oil Corp | -4.86% | 2.90B |
| NBD | Norbord, Inc. | -4.64% | 1.82B |
| MEG | MEG Energy Corp | -3.84% | 6.88B |
| AGI | Alamos Gold Inc | -3.28% | 1.66B |
| T | TELUS Corporation | -3.08% | 22.45B |
Excludes stocks with mkt cap less than $1B.
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Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.01% | +0.0051 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 1.01% | 0.00 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.62% | +0.0100 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |