{"id":79549,"date":"2025-08-18T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79549\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:42:06","slug":"sp-tsx-composite-finishes-slightly-higher-u-s-markets-mixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79549\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P\/TSX composite finishes slightly higher, U.S. markets mixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index saw small gains to finish Monday&#8217;s trading session, benefiting from advances in the consumer cyclicals and non-cyclicals sectors, while U.S. markets were mixed. The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 17.<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Canada&#8217;s main stock index saw small gains to finish Monday&#8217;s trading session, benefiting from advances in the consumer cyclicals and non-cyclicals sectors, while U.S. markets were mixed. <\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 17.36 points at 27,922.85. <\/p>\n<p>In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 34.30 points at 44,911.82. The S&amp;P 500 index was flat at 6,449.15, while the Nasdaq composite was up 6.80 points at 21,629.77.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar traded for 72.42 cents US compared with 72.43 cents US on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The October crude oil contract was up 72 cents US at US$62.70 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The December gold contract was down US$4.60 at US$3,378 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 18, 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 saw small gains to finish Monday&#8217;s trading session, benefiting from advances in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45,49,48,100],"class_list":["post-79549","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\/79549","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=79549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}