By Tim Kiladze
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Monday, August 4, 2025
Canada's benchmark stock index is outperforming both the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index in 2025, and there is a single sector doing the heavy lifting: gold.
Despite the continuing tariff drama with the United States that disproportionately hurts Canada's economy relative to the U.S., the S&P/TSX Composite Index is up 11.1% since the start of the year, including dividends, while the S&P 500 has climbed 6.9% and the Nasdaq has risen 7.3%.
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Multiple sectors have performed well on the TSX this year, but gold producers in particular are dominating, comprising 15 of the 20 best share price returns. These companies are led by Lundin Gold Inc., which has put up a 120% return, including dividends.
Gold companies also make up four of the top-five TSX performers, including Dundee Precious Metals Inc., SSR Mining Inc., and Kinross Gold Corp. They all have total returns of at least 65% since the start of the year.
The only non-gold company in the group is Celestica Inc., a Canadian technology company that came back from the dead to strike it rich off the artificial-intelligence boom. ...
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tsx-performance-gold-trump-chaos/ [2]
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