{"id":230242,"date":"2025-10-21T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230242\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:12:10","slug":"sp-tsx-composite-falls-more-than-500-points-u-s-markets-mixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230242\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P\/TSX composite falls more than 500 points, U.S. markets mixed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index finished more than 500 points lower Tuesday, weighed down by losses in the basic materials sector, while U.S. stock markets posted mixed results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 527.62 points at 29,888.82.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 218.16 points at 46,924.74. The S&amp;P 500 index was up 0.22 points at 6,735.35, while the Nasdaq composite was down 36.88 points at 22,953.67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian dollar traded for 71.32 cents US compared with 71.25 cents US on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The December crude oil contract was up 22 cents US at US$57.24 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The December gold contract was down US$250.30 at US$4,109.10 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index finished more than 500 points lower Tuesday, weighed down by losses in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,109668,3098,50879,3097],"class_list":["post-230242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-materials-sector","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-points","tag-stock-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}