{"id":40361,"date":"2015-01-30T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40361"},"modified":"2015-01-30T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:09:15","slug":"toronto-stock-market-heads-higher-amid-positive-earnings-news-rising-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/30\/toronto-stock-market-heads-higher-amid-positive-earnings-news-rising-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto stock market heads higher amid positive earnings news, rising oil"},"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 market was higher Thursday amid positive earnings reports from Facebook, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and automaker Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P\/TSX composite index rose 61.1 points to 14,663.98. The Canadian dollar lost more ground in the wake of Wednesday&#8217;s announcement from the Federal Reserve that left markets with the impression that the central bank will start hiking rates around the middle of this year. The loonie lost 0.11 of a cent to 79.76 cents US, adding to the three-quarters of a cent slide racked up in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed said it would be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy while at the same time it pointed out a string of positives about the American economy, including that economic activity is expanding at a solid pace.<\/p>\n<p>New York indexes were higher but still weighed down by worries the Fed might be raising rates too soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow Jones industrials were ahead 56.19 points to 17,247.56, the Nasdaq gained 1.81 points to 4,639.8 and the S&amp;P 500 index was 3.07 points higher to 2,005.23.<\/p>\n<p>Energy stocks helped lift the TSX as oil prices advanced 34 cents to US$44.79 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; The Toronto stock market market was higher Thursday amid positive earnings reports from Facebook, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","category-news-ca","mauthors-malcolm-morrison","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361","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=40361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/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=40361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}