P.M. market numbers for February 4, 2010

| North American markets | International markets | Bonds | Currency | Commodities |

The Toronto stock market tumbled as worries about Europe’s government debt crisis unnerved investors and sent the U.S. dollar higher, which in turn punished commodity prices.

Adding to the session’s woes was a surprising hike in U.S. jobless insurance claims data a day before the release of the non-farm payrolls report for January.

The S&P/TSX composite index fell 261.7 points to 11,12876, its biggest one-day slide since early October, 2009. The Canadian dollar dropped 0.91 of a cent to 93.22 cents US while oil dropped $3.84 to US$73.14 a barrel. Debt-laden European countries, particularly in Greece, Spain and Portugal, have increasingly been in focus this week amid concerns their governments won’t be able to push through unpopular austerity programs to tame huge deficits. New York’s Dow Jones industrials dropped 268.37 points to 10,002.18, the Nasdaq composite index lost 65.48 points to 2,125.43 and the S&P 500 index shed 34.17 points to 1,063.11.

(The Canadian Press)

North American markets

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	Close	Change	YTD
Dow Jones	10,016.84	-253.71 or -2.47%	-3.94%
S&P 500	1,065.98	-31.30 or -2.85%	-4.40%
NASDAQ	2,128.76	-62.15 or -2.84%	-6.19%
TSX Composite	11,138.85	-251.61 or -2.21%	-5.17%

International markets

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	Close	Change	YTD
Nikkei	10,355.98	-48.35 or -0.46%	-1.81%
Hang Seng	20,341.64	-380.44 or -1.84%	-7.00%
SENSEX	16,224.95	-271.10 or -1.64%	-7.10%
FTSE 100	5,139.31	-113.84 or -2.17%	-5.05%
CAC 40	3,689.25	-104.22 or -2.75%	-6.28%
DAX	5,533.24	-138.85 or -2.45%	-7.12%

Bonds

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Bonds	$Current	$Previous	%Yield
Cdn. 10-year bond	103.17	103.48	3.35
Cdn. 30-year bond	116.75	117.26	3.99
U.S. 10-year bond	98.21	97.72	3.59
U.S. 30-year bond	97.50	96.47	4.53

Currency

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BoC Close	Today	Previous
Canadian $	0.9322	0.9399
US $	1.0727	1.0639

Euro Spot Rate	Today	Previous
Canadian $	0.6785	0.6799
Euro	1.4739	1.4707

Commodities

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Gold	AM	PM
London Gold Fix ($US)	$1,102.50	$1,102.50

Oil	Open	Change
WTI Crude Future (US)	$73.06	-$3.92 or -5.09%

(02/04/10)