TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE

INTRODUCTION The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has been one of the best-performing markets in the world with companies that provide steady growth in an environment of economic and political stability. TSX located at toronto , ontario,canada OWNER : TMX GROUP FOUNDED : October 25, 1861

History The Toronto Stock Exchange likely descended from the Association of Brokers, a group formed by Toronto businessmen on July 26, 1852. No official records of the group's transactions have survived. On October 25, 1861, twenty-four men gathered at the Masonic Hall to create the Toronto Stock Exchange The exchange was formally incorporated by an act of the  Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1878.

Canadian Securities Adminisstrators REGULATOR Canadian Securities Adminisstrators The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is an umbrella organization of Canada’s provincial and territorial securities regulators whose objective is to improve, coordinate and harmonize regulation of the Canadian capital markets. The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is an umbrella organization of ... In 2004, the CSA established a permanent secretariat, located in Montreal

Current status CURRENCY : CANADIAN DOLLAR TSX is one of the largest stock exchange  in the world. As of February 2015, it has the greatest number of security listings of any exchange in North America and has the second-most listings worldwide. As of August 2012, Toronto Stock Exchange had 1,577 listed companies It is also the eighth largest exchange in the world by market capitalization $2.575 trillion (June 30, 2014) VOLUME: 39.7 billion shares (June 30, 2014 CURRENCY : CANADIAN DOLLAR INDICES: S&P/TSX COMPOSITE S&P/TSX 60 S&P/TSX Completion Index TIMING: The exchange has a normal trading session from 09:30am to 04:00pm ET and a post-market session from 04:15pm to 05:00pm ET on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the Exchange in advance

The S&P/TSX Composite Index is an index of the stock (equity) prices of the largest companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) as measured by market capitalization. The Toronto Stock Exchange listed companies in this index account for about 70% of market capitalization for all Canadian-based companies listed on the TSX. It replaces the earlier TSE 300 index The S&P/TSX 60 Index is a stock market index of 60 large companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Maintained by the Canadian S&P Index Committee, it currently exposes the investor to ten industry sectors