Dow Jones and Toronto Stock Exchange

Nasdaq: New York markets were narrowly mixed, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing 17.12 points to 16,449.18, while the S&P 500 declined 0.86 of a point to 1,939.38 and the Nasdaq added 6.42 points to 4,620.37, according to The Toronto Star. In commodities, the March contract for benchmark crude oil fell $2 to end trading at US$31.62 a barrel, while March natural gas plummeted 14.6 cents to US$2.152 per mm Btu and April gold rose $11.60 to US$1,128.00 a troy ounce. The Toronto Stock Exchange S&P/TSX composite index fell 147.76 points to end the day at 12,674.37, reversing direction on a big rally that closed out trading last week. Craig Fehr, Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Oil took another hit after a survey of Chinese purchasing managers showing the outlook for the country manufacturing industry fell to its lowest level in more than three years. Louis, said three related factors that drove driven market weakness in early January — sliding oil prices, volatility in Chinese and stumbling global growth — were all on display Monday. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.