{"id":114020,"date":"2025-09-02T20:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114020\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:53:06","slug":"sp-tsx-composite-up-amid-gains-in-basic-materials-u-s-markets-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114020\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P\/TSX composite up amid gains in basic materials, U.S. markets fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index finished higher on Tuesday, as gains in basic materials offset broader losses, while U.S. markets fell. The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 51.17 points at 28,615.62.<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index finished higher on Tuesday, as gains in basic materials offset broader losses, while U.S. markets fell.  <\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 51.17 points at 28,615.62.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 249.07 points at 45,295.81. The S&amp;P 500 index was down 44.72 points at 6,415.54, while the Nasdaq composite was down 175.92 points at 21,279.63.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar traded for 72.52 cents US compared with 72.77 cents US on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The October crude oil contract was up US$1.58 at US$65.59 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The December gold contract was up US$76.10 at US$3,592.20 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD)<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index finished higher on Tuesday, as gains in basic materials offset broader losses,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,63,99,171],"class_list":["post-114020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}