(December 9 – 13:10 ET) –
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s
yearly trading value passed
$494 billion* today – establishing
an all-time yearly record. This is
the seventh consecutive year the
TSE has surpassed the yearly
trading record. Since 1993 trading
value on the TSE has jumped more
than 236 percent.
Shares traded and transactions
are also at all-time yearly highs.
So far more than 27 billion shares
have changed hands in more than 16
million transactions.
There have been several records
at the TSE in 1999:
- Daily transaction record,
December 8th, 1999 —
132,256
- Daily Volume Record, September
28, 1999 — 212,708,376
- Daily Value Record, April 19,
1999 — $3,610,932,928
- Monthly Value Record, April
1999 — $51,691,163,033
- Monthly Volume Record, April
1999 — 3,133,412,782
- Monthly Trades Record, November
1999 — 1,952,849
- Record High Close, TSE 300
Index, November 26, 1999 — 7889.90
The fully automated Toronto
Stock Exchange consistently ranks
as one of the world’s top exchanges
and is Canada’s premier market for
senior equities. In 1998, more
than 26 billion shares traded,
worth more than $490 billion –
about $2 billion a day in share
transactions.
-IE Staff