{"id":24601,"date":"2014-09-03T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24601"},"modified":"2014-09-03T00:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:20:06","slug":"toronto-stock-market-declines-ahead-of-busy-week-for-economic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/03\/toronto-stock-market-declines-ahead-of-busy-week-for-economic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto stock market declines ahead of busy week for economic data"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21229\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-canada-stock-market.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21229\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-canada-stock-market.jpg\" alt=\"Facade of the Toronto Stock Exchange (ShutterStock image)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-canada-stock-market.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-canada-stock-market-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facade of the Toronto Stock Exchange (ShutterStock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; The Toronto Stock market was little changed at the start of a week that will see a heavy slate of key economic data.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index was down 24.42 points at 15,601.31, after closing at a record high close Friday. The Canadian dollar was down 0.27 of a cent to 91.7 cents US while traders await the Bank of Canada&#8217;s announcement on interest rates Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. markets were mixed with the Dow Jones industrials off 1.67 points to 17,096.78, the Nasdaq up 13.2 points to 4,593.47 and the S&amp;P 500 index up 2.36 points to 2,005.73.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the morning, traders will consider the latest reading on the health of the American manufacturing sector. The Institute for Supply Management&#8217;s index for August was expected to indicate slowing expansion.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the U.S. government releases its employment report for August. Economists are looking for another strong month of job creation in the neighbourhood of 220,000.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian jobs data also comes out on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; The Toronto Stock market was little changed at the start of a week that will see a heavy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-stock-markets","mauthors-malcolm-morrison","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}