{"id":79021,"date":"2025-08-18T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79021\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:41:07","slug":"sp-tsx-composite-down-in-late-morning-trading-u-s-stock-markets-also-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79021\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P\/TSX composite down in late-morning trading, U.S. stock markets also lower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index fell in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the base metals sector, while U.S. stock markets also moved lower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 15.28 points at 27,890.21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 2.99 points at 44,943.13. The S&amp;P 500 index was down 3.45 points at 6,446.35, while the Nasdaq composite was down 30.50 points at 21,592.48.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian dollar traded for 72.32 cents US compared with 72.43 cents US on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The October crude oil contract was up four cents US at US$62.02 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The December gold contract was down US$4.50 at US$3,378.10 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 18, 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 fell in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the base metals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45,49,48,100,3098,47910,3097],"class_list":["post-79021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-stock-index","tag-stock-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021","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=79021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}