S&P/TSX composite down bigger than 100 factors, U.S. stock markets also lower
TORONTO — Canada’s valuable stock index moved lower Tuesday, led by industrial and utilities stocks, whereas U.S. markets also declined.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 136.50 factors at 20,109.97.
In Recent York, the Dow Jones industrial moderate became down 62.75 factors at 35,088.29. The S&P 500 index became down 9.19 factors at 4,538.19, whereas the Nasdaq composite became down 84.55 factors at 14,199.98.
Markets personal been softer on Tuesday amid a quieter week ahead of U.S. Thanksgiving, stated Tamsin Wilding, valuable and portfolio supervisor for mounted profits at Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd.
Canadian inflation slowed to 3.1 per cent in October, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday, down from 3.8 per cent in September. The lower tag of gasoline helped frosty inflation final month, the company stated, but even excluding for that, inflation smooth moved lower.
Measures of core inflation, a key indicator for the Bank of Canada, confirmed a marked growth, Wilding stated.
“I feel (the Bank of Canada) will be excellent-trying overjoyed by the encouraging signs of this inflation document, which confirmed that there’s some renewed downward momentum,” she stated.
The document additional reduces the already-slim potentialities that the Bank of Canada will wish to hike rates again, stated Wilding.
Good now, the market is waiting for three rate cuts by the tip of 2024, with the first in June, she stated, even supposing “it be smooth exhausting to settle correct what the magnitude and the timing of those will be.”
South of the border, the minutes from basically the most neatly-liked U.S. Federal Reserve meeting personal been released, but didn’t personal a subject subject affect on markets as the central bank continued to reiterate its cautious messaging, stated Wilding.
Fed officials agreed to closely video display incoming financial files as they made up our minds to leave their in a single day rate unchanged. The minutes instructed the Fed would safe off on any more hikes except the records indicated that development toward its target became insufficient.
Several U.S. outlets reported earnings, with blended results — even supposing Lowe’s and Supreme Buy reported bigger earnings for basically the most neatly-liked quarter than analysts expected, they every cut their forecast.
The Canadian buck traded for 73.00 cents UScompared with 72.85 cents US on Monday.
The January extreme contract became down six cents at US$77.77 per barrel and the January natural gasoline contract became down six cents at US$2.Ninety nine per mmBTU.
The December gold contract became up US$21.30 at US$2,001.60 an ounceand the December copper contract became up two cents at 3.81 a pound.
— With recordsdata from The Linked Press
This document by The Canadian Press became first published Nov. 21, 2023.
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Rosa Saba, The Canadian Press
