RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: observations... Forgot one thing. The Canadian markets are totally affected by the US because the major investment banks in both countries...and globally, are inextricably linked via the semi transparent, interwoven, garagantuan derivatives markets...leveraged money in the thosands of $trillians.
This is at the center of all the action, and Canadian banks are joined at the hip to the US Giants, levered via these debt instruments on their off balance sheets...and it is not apparent to the public. As more and more money is printed out of of thin air, for every new dollar (digit) printed, every other dollar is worth less. This is one reason why gold is a safe haven and currency...you cannot print gold out of thin air....it has an intrinsic value because it costs so much to unearth....and there is a limited amount of it on earth above ground.
The tentacles of what some refer to as a 'giant sucking squid' (google)...Goldman Sachs ( ei; they have donated over $300,000 to Mitt Romney alone) and others, reach down into all the free markets (not so free now) of the world..with Canada being a prime target....to ply their trade. They are behind what drives the north american markets every day. They run Wall St. and the US Gov., along with the US Federal Reserve Central bank led by Bernanke ( the US Fed. is not central or public...it is a private Cartel owned by the owners of the major western world banks...you cannot buy shares in it...Google/wikipedia).
Oh my God, here I go again. Its all there for the record to research.