{"id":32056,"date":"2025-08-30T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32056\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:50:09","slug":"sp-tsx-composite-finishes-about-130-points-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32056\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P\/TSX composite finishes about 130 points higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 29, 2025 at 4:24PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 29, 2025 at 11:41AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The materials sector helped lift Canada\u2019s main stock index to finish higher on Friday, while U.S. markets were down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was up 129.65 points at 28,564.45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 92.02 points at 45,544.88. The S&amp;P 500 index was down 41.60 points at 6,460.26, while the Nasdaq composite was down 249.61 points at 21,455.55.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian dollar traded for 72.77 cents US compared with 72.70 cents US on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The October crude oil contract was down 59 cents US at US$64.01 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The December gold contract was up US$41.80 at US$3,516.10 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 29, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 29, 2025 at 4:24PM EDT Published:\u00a0August 29, 2025 at 11:41AM EDT TORONTO \u2014 The materials sector helped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,1729,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-32056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}