With apologies to Mark Twain, the news of the demise of markets in Canada proved an exaggeration Monday, as many stocks recovered.
The TSX index leaped 260.36 points to conclude Monday at 32,183.88.
The Canadian dollar faded 0.18 cents at 73.15 cents U.S.
The TSX on Friday recorded its biggest single-day drop since April, as gold prices and mining stocks plunged after Trump picked Kevin Warsh, often viewed as hawkish, to succeed Jerome Powell as the next Federal Reserve chair.
Meanwhile, Capstone Copper said on Monday that it has resumed operations at its Mantoverde mine in northern Chile, even as a strike by a labour union representing nearly 22% of its workforce continued.
Capstone shares hiked 56 cents, or 3.7%, to $15.65.
Among notable movers, shares of Eldorado Gold plunged $5.03, or 8.6% to $53.39, after the miner said it would acquire Foran Mining in a deal valuing the copper-focused developer at about $3.8 billion.
Consumer staples led the path upward, with Alimentation Couche-Tard registering $3.10, or 4.4%, higher to $73.94, while Empire Company soared $1.88, or 4.2%, to $46.36.
In financials, goeasy Ltd. Hiked $4.73, or 3.8%, to $129.85, while CIBC jumped $3.79, or 3%, to $129.63.
In health-care, Chartwell Retirement Residents took on 37 cents, or 1.8%, to $20.59, while Sienna Senior Living captured 61 cents, or 2.9%, to $21.82.
Only energy led the side down, as Tourmaline Oil handed back $2.95, or 4.6%, to $61.49, while Advantage Oil sank 36 cents, or 3.3%, to $10.65.
On the economic beat, the Markit PMI for January increased to 50.40 points from 48.60 points in December 2025.
ON BAYSTREET
The TSX Venture Exchange retreated 20.41 points, or 1.9%, to 1,030.67.
All but three of the 12 TSX subgroups closed Monday higher, with consumer staples soaring 2.7%, financials richer by 1.7%, and health-care haler 1.2%.
The three laggards were energy, down 0.9%, while information technology and utilities each lost 0.01%.
ON WALLSTREET
U.S. equities rose on Monday as Wall Street began a new month of trading, with investors looking past the recent losses in silver and bitcoin
The Dow Jones Industrials zoomed 515.19 points, or 1.1%, to 49,407.66.
The S&P 500 index recovered 37.47 points to 6,976.50, helped by rise in Oracle shares after the data center company announced it’s going to raise up to $50 billion to build additional capacity for cloud customers
The NASDAQ recouped 130.29 points to 22,592.11.
Bitcoin dropped below $80,000 for the first time since April, a sign investors were taking more risk off the table following Friday’s sharp declines in gold and silver.
Silver, which has more than doubled over the past 12 months, plunged around 30% on Friday. That marked the metal’s worst one-day performance since 1980. Gold also dropped around 10%.
The cryptocurrency, as well as the two metals, later came off their respective lows Monday, which helped trim losses in equities and ease risk-off sentiment.
Bitcoin last traded around $78,000, while spot gold and spot silver were down 4% and 5%, respectively. Bitcoin proxy Strategy also saw losses, falling 6%.
Wall Street also turned its attention to Nvidia as questions over the artificial intelligence loomed. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Nvidia’s plans to pour $100 billion into OpenAI had stalled, with chipmaker execs expressing doubt about the deal. Nvidia shares were down around than 2%.
More than 100 S&P 500 companies are due to report this week. That includes Amazon and Alphabet — shares of both names were higher Monday. The overall reporting season has been strong thus far, but there have been some high-profile post-earnings sell-offs, including Microsoft.
Disney kicked off this week with reporting earnings that beat analyst expectations. However, the stock fell 7% after the company warned of headwinds from international travelers attending domestic parks.
Prices for the 10-year Treasury faded Monday, raising yields to 4.28% from Friday’s 4.25%. Treasury prices and yields move in opposite directions.
Oil prices slid $3.02 to $62.19 U.S. a barrel.
Gold prices skidded $49.50 to $4,695.70 U.S. an ounce.
