Guess What Stock Market Is at a New High?

I’ll give you a hint.
Toronto.
Give up?

Much of the momentum on the TSX has been caused by strength in resource stocks. The energy sector has climbed 40 per cent since January while the price for crude oil rose above US$125.
Investors have been turning to commodities stocks as a reliable investment alternative to international financial institutions, whose results have been bruised by the credit crisis.
“People were extremely nervous so they pulled in their horns, and they took their money out of risky investments,” said Bob Tebbutt, vice-president risk management at Peregrine Financial Group Canada.
“When people are nervous they automatically flock to things that are real — for example they flock to gold. It’s a risk place that they can put their money in and know that they’re theoretically going to get it back fairly easily.”

Posted by on May 13th, 2008 at 1:08 am


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