{"id":55357,"date":"2025-08-08T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55357\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:53:07","slug":"sp-tsx-composite-flat-u-s-markets-rise-in-friday-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55357\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P\/TSX composite flat, U.S. markets rise in Friday trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index was flat Friday, trading a tick lower despite gains in base metals, while U.S. markets traded higher Friday. The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 2.59 points at 27,758.68.<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index was flat Friday, trading a tick lower despite gains in base metals, while U.S. markets traded higher Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 2.59 points at 27,758.68.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 206.97 points at 44,175.61. The S&amp;P 500 index was up 49.45 points at 6,389.45, while the Nasdaq composite was up 207.32 points at 21,450.02. <\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar traded for 72.72 cents US, compared with 72.71 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The September crude oil contract was unchanged at US$63.88 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The December gold contract was up US$37.60 at US$3,491.30 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 8, 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 was flat Friday, trading a tick lower despite gains in base metals,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45,49,48,100],"class_list":["post-55357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55357","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=55357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}