Unlike most other goods or services that financial assets are based on, real estate responds to an innate desire -- the desire to have a piece of this earth one can call his own. This basic yearning has been, in my opinion, the driving force of the real estate market, and the reason I continue to believe in it.

TORONTO - North American stock markets moved higher Friday after a surprise improvement in the U.S. jobless rate helped the Dow Jones industrials clim...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market finished lower for a fifth session Friday as big disappointments from jobs numbers in both Canada and the United St...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed lower for a third session Thursday as further weak employment data raised worries about slowing U.S. economi...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market tumbled about two per cent Wednesday, shedding all its year-to-date gains amid worries that the American economy is...

TORONTO - Gains could be hard to find on stock markets this week as traders wonder if the current rally on markets has run out of steam and look to a ...

The Toronto Stock Exchange is set to close out an underwhelming three per cent gain for 2012, which would place Canada's benchmark bourse among the de...

TORONTO - The looming U.S. fiscal cliff will weigh on markets again this week amid uncertainty that politicians can come together to defuse a potentia...

TORONTO - Hurricane Sandy is set to overshadow the start of the trading week after the operator of the New York Stock Exchange said that it is suspend...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market tumbled more than 150 points Tuesday amid sliding commodity prices as U.S. earnings disappointments and a fresh rou...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market plummeted three per cent, closing 350 points lower in its biggest one-day drop since November.The index was dragged...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed lower Monday as early relief that Spain would get a bailout for its banking sector turned to questions about...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market kicked off June trading with a sharp loss Friday and commodity prices hit fresh multi-month lows amid data showing ...

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market sold off Wednesday, losing 1.5 per cent amid growing worries about Spain's banking sector and the future of tech g...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market registered a solid gain Tuesday as traders caught up to solid advances made on global commodity and stock markets w...

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market tumbled to close at its lowest level since early October as talks aimed at forming a new Greek government failed. ...

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market tumbled more than 200 points Tuesday as commodity prices retreated amid worries that Greece could run out of money...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market likely faces more headwinds this week after further indications of slowing job growth added to worries that the eco...

UPDATE: The S&P TSX composite index closed at 11,871 on Friday, down more than 500 points in three trading days, and marking the index's worst perform...

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market tumbled about two per cent Thursday as a worse than expected reading on the American non-manufacturing sector and ...

TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market fell more than 100 points mid-morning Wednesday amid disappointing economic data from the U.S. and Europe and earn...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed Monday with a triple-digit loss as concerns about the European economy's debt crisis spread around the globe...

Attention investors: as growth in China slows, the Toronto Stock Exchange may not be the wisest place to position your bets. Despite a strong perf...

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market sold off across all sectors Tuesday, falling almost two per cent amid a fresh round of concern that global growth c...

Many financial gurus say the key to successful investing is diversification. It wasn’t all that long ago that getting broad market dive...