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Futures for Canada’s TSX rose in Tuesday’s premarket as concerns about the severity of the omicron variant begin to subside, which also supported rising oil prices, giving the Canadian benchmark an additional boost.
(Updated December 7, 2021)
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Current performance
Here are last week’s numbers for the North American and international investment markets. (This chart is updated every Monday afternoon, based on the previous Friday’s market-close figures.)
The stock and bond market*
|
Index
|
Close
|
Week
|
YTD
|
|
S&P/TSX
Composite
|
20,633.27
|
-2.33%
|
18.36%
|
|---|
|
Dow
Jones Industrial Avg.
|
34,580.08
|
-0.91%
|
12.98%
|
|---|
|
S&P
500 Index
|
4,538.43
|
-1.22%
|
20.83%
|
|---|
|
Nasdaq
Composite
|
15,085.47
|
-2.62%
|
17.05%
|
|---|
|
10-yr
GoC Yield
|
1.45%
|
-0.14%
|
0.78%
|
|---|
|
10-yr
U.S. Treasury Yield
|
1.35%
|
-0.13%
|
0.42%
|
|---|
|
WTI
Crude Oil (US$/bbl)
|
66.26
|
-2.77%
|
36.56%
|
|---|
|
Canadian
Dollar
|
US$0.7813
|
-0.22%
|
-0.52%
|
|---|
|
Bank of Canada Prime
Rate 2.45%
|
*Weekly performance ending December 3, 2021. Sources:
www.bloomberg.com,
www.bankofcanada.ca and
www.treasury.gov.
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