{"id":50319,"date":"2025-09-29T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50319\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:53:09","slug":"base-metal-stocks-help-boost-sp-tsx-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50319\/","title":{"rendered":"Base metal stocks help boost S&#038;P\/TSX composite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Strength in the base metal stocks helped boost Canada\u2019s main stock index higher in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets were mixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 160.68 points at 29,921.96.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 57.90 points at 46,189.39. The S&amp;P 500 index was up 19.96 points at 6,663.66, while the Nasdaq composite was up 138.89 points at 22,622.96.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian dollar traded for 71.85 cents US compared with 71.73 cents US on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The November crude oil contract was down US$2.23 at US$63.49 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The December gold contract was up US$46.80 at US$3,855.80 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 29, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Strength in the base metal stocks helped boost Canada\u2019s main stock index higher in late-morning trading,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,219,246,220,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-50319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}