{"id":924555,"date":"2026-10-07T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924555\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:54:09","slug":"sp-tsx-composite-falls-more-than-600-points-u-s-stock-markets-also-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924555\/","title":{"rendered":"S&P\/TSX composite falls more than 600 points, U.S. stock markets also negative"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> A man walks past a building in Toronto that used to house the Toronto Stock Exchange on Aug. 18, 2011.THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Aaron Vincent Elkaim – The Canadian Press <\/p>\n

TORONTO \u2014 Canada’s main stock index fell more than 600 points Wednesday, weighed down by losses in the basic materials sector, while U.S. markets were also negative. <\/p>\n

The S&P\/TSX composite index was down 607.65 points at 35,041.86. <\/p>\n

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 341.41 points at 51,179.87. The S&P 500 index was down 17.16 points at 7,801.77, while the Nasdaq composite was down 61.20 points at 27,538.69. <\/p>\n

The Canadian dollar traded for 70.14 cents US compared with 70.29 cents US on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The November crude oil contract was down US$1.16 at US$88.28 per barrel. <\/p>\n

The December gold contract was down US$46.40 at US$4,140.70 an ounce. <\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 7, 2026. <\/p>\n

Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD) <\/p>\n

The Canadian Press <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man walks past a building in Toronto that used to house the Toronto Stock Exchange on Aug.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15261,45,161,49,48,46,133,1828,1829,74172,1830,1831,39783,8123,131,2519,968,1705,2511,1832,1833,176,74173,3322,74174],"class_list":["post-924555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-401k","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-track-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924555","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=924555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}