The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)

Canadian Stock exchange

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.Through TSX Group’s equity and energy markets, investors and issuers have discovered

Fast, low-cost and liquid trading a range of innovative trading products. More oil and gas issuers than any exchange group in the world

The single largest source in the world of equity financing for mining issuers ,

the second largest exchange group in the world for technology companies ,

the S&P/TSX Composite Index that has risen 34 per cent since the end of 1999,

compared to a decline of 15 per cent on the S&P 500

And all backed by a strong economy

Canada is the only G7 country in surplus for eight years running – and a country rich in natural resources.

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is Canada's largest & North America's third largest, and the sixth largest in the world. It is the division of the TSX Group trading in senior equities. A broad range of businesses from Canada, the US, and other nations are listed. The TSX is headquartered in Toronto, the third largest financial centre in North America, and maintains offices in Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver.

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The TSX likely grew from an "Association of Brokers" formed by businessmen of Toronto on July 26, 1852. However, no official records remain of this group's transactions. On October 25, 1861, twenty-four men gathered at the Masonic Hall to officially create the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Toronto Stock Exchange became formally incorporated by an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1878.

In 1934, the Toronto Stock Exchange merged with its key competitor the Standard Stock and Mining Exchange. The markets chose to keep the name Toronto Stock Exchange.

In 1977, the TSE introduced CATS (Computer Assisted Trading System), an automated trading system which started to be used for the quotation of less liquid equities.

In 1997, the TSE's trading floor closed, making it the second largest stock exchange in North America to choose a floorless, electronic environment.

In 1999, Barbara G. Stymiest became the first female president of a North American stock exchange (Toronto).

Through a realignment plan, Toronto Stock Exchange became Canada's sole exchange for the trading of senior equities. The Bourse de Montréal/Montreal Exchange assumed responsibility for the trading of derivatives and the Vancouver Stock Exchange and Alberta Stock Exchange merged to form the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) handling trading in junior equities. The Canadian Dealing Network, Winnipeg Stock Exchange, and equities portion of the Montreal Exchange later merged with CDNX.

In 2001, the Toronto Stock Exchange acquired the Canadian Venture Exchange.

Toronto Stock Exchange is one of the largest exchanges in the world, in terms of market capitalization and trading volume. It is the sixth largest exchange in the world by market capitalization after the NYSE, Tokyo Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, London Stock Exchange, and Euronext. It is the third most active stock exchange in North America, behind the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.

The website of the Toronto Stock exchange http://www.tsx.com/ Gives information on the TSX, Corporate Information Lines of Business Growth, speeches from TSX execs. Innovationm Competition, Expertise, Community Involvement, Listed Company Directory, Participating Organizations and Members, TSXtra, Newsletters Market Hours HolidaysCareers Working Environment, & Job Opportunities. The website contaibts info when the centre opens and shuts so one can watch clock tick tock

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Toronto Office
P.O. Box 450
3rd Floor, 130 King Street W.
Toronto, ON
M5X 1J2
Canada

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Toronto is a Canadian city located on the north western shore of Lake Ontario, and is the provincial capital of Ontario. Toronto is a global city, exerting significant regional, national, and international influence, and is one of the world's most multicultural and ethnically diverse cities. It is Canada's financial centre and economic engine, as well as one of the country's most important cultural, art, and health sciences centres.

A population of 2,481,494, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fifth most populous in North America, after Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The city is the centre of the Greater Toronto Area, a regional conurbation, a densely populated region in Ontario which is home to over eight million people, roughly one quarter of the Canadian population. The population of the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) is estimated at 5,304,100 in 2005.

Toronto was voted the world's most livable city in 1994 by The Economist. It was displaced in 2005 by Vancouver, but is still ranked among the top ten.

The name Toronto has a rich history, and is quite distinct from the history of the eponymous Canadian city. Originally, the term referred to The Narrows, a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching. This narrows was styled tkaronto by the Mohawk, meaning where there are trees standing in water.

By 1680, Lake Simcoe appeared as Lac de Taronto on a map created by French official Abbé Claude Bernou; by 1686, Passage de Taronto referred to a canoe route tracking what is now the Humber River. The Humber River became known as Rivière Taronto as route became more popular with French explorers, and by the 1720s a fort to the east of the mouth of the river was named Fort Toronto.

The change of spelling from Taronto to Toronto is thought to originate on a 1695 map by Italian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli.

Another explanation of why the town got its name is that a man called Ronto, a close relation of Tonto from the lone Ranger, was in a canoe and list his paddle. He wanted a lift show so a boat towed him from the place where he was stuck. The name of this place is now called TowRonto.

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Pronunciation
The stress is on the second syllable. Locals often pronounce the city's name "Toronno" (most often, 'I'm gonna go to Toronno') or "Tronno", "Tronto", "Toranna", "Taranna", "Chronno" or "Chranna" or even "Terawhnna" . This is a reflection of the varieties of Canadian pronunciation and does not represent a unique pronunciation for the city name itself. Even the same local speaker may pronounce the name differently depending on the subject of the conversation in which it is used.

Even for Canadian speakers it is never outright incorrect to pronounce distinctly the second t in Toronto. Pronouncing it "Tor-on-toe" (with stress on the second syllable) in casual speech is usually seen as a sign of someone who is not a native of the city. Canadian francophones pronounce it, "To-ron-to", in three syllables, with the french nasal on on the second syllable, and the accent on the third syllable.

Nicknames
Toronto has garnered various nicknames throughout its history, including:

T.O. – an acrostic for Toronto, Ontario, or a false acrostic for Toronto; pronounced "Tee-Oh"

Hogtown – referring to its importance in the 19th century as a site for growing, trading, and marketing livestock, especially in The Junction
Toronto the Good – from its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality (sometimes called Toronto the Bad now in reverse as a derogatory nickname)
Methodist Rome – an analogy implicating the city as a centre for Canadian methodism, akin to Rome's role in Catholicism
City of Churches
Hollywood North – due to the many TV and movie productions in the city (although this title is also given to Vancouver)
Queen City – a reference most commonly used by francophone Quebecers ("La Ville-Reine")
Muddy York – derived from Toronto's previous name, York, and the weather's effect on its once-largely unpaved streets
The 416 – 416 is the original telephone area code for much of the city (the other area code in Toronto is 647; 905 is used in the surrounding GTA exurbs)
The Economic Engine of Canada
New York run by the Swiss – a take on Peter Ustinov's oft-quoted reference of the city to reporter John Bentley Mays in The Globe and Mail on 1 August 1987: "Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss." When reminded of this later at a reception in June 1992, he responded (again cited in The Globe), "I've learned it's really run by the Canadians."

T-Zero - a play on the T.O. nickname used by anti-Torontonians (often Montrealers)
T-dot or T.dot – short for "T-dot, O-dot", a hip-hop slang nickname
The Big Smoke – a nickname it shares with many other cities
The Centre of the Universe - A derogatory term used outside Toronto.

Torry is another short name used.

similar place names

Oronto Bay is an arm of Lake Superior

Links on websites on subject

http://www.nasdaq.com/ The homepage of the stock exchange

http://www.cityequities.com/
http://www.moneyweek.com

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