TSX touches record high on bets of larger Fed rate cut
Updated at 10:11 a.m. ET/ 1411 GMT
By Nikhil Sharma
Sept 16 (Reuters) -Canada's main stock index edged up to an all-time highon Monday, driven by gains in healthcare shares, whileinvestors bet on a heftier U.S. interest-ratecut later this week.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE was up 54.98 points, or 0.23%, at 23,623.63. It had notched record-high closing levels in the past two sessions.
At least nine sectors gained, led by a near 1% rise in healthcare .GSPTTHC. Bausch Health Companies BHC.TO jumped6.7% after reports of unit Bausch+ Lomb BLCO.N exploring sale options.
The domesticindex paredinitial gains, however, takingcues from Wall Street afterthe tech-heavy Nasdaq .IXIC registered an over 1% decline.
Odds of a 50-basis-point rate cut at the end of the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day meeting on Wednesday have risen to 63%, from 30% last week, according to the CME's FedWatch tool.
"It's probably the first cut of many to come" and that gives a boost to the resource-heavy Canadian market for a number of reasons, said Allan Small, senior investment advisor at Allan Small Financial Group with iA Private Wealth.
Zero-yield gold and other dollar-denominated commodities tend to benefit from lower U.S. interest rates. Crude oil and gold are among Canada's top exports.
TheBank of Canada has already cut its interest rates three consecutive times this year, bringing the policy rates down from a two-decade high of 5% to 4.25%.
On the data front, Canadian factory sales grew by 1.4% in June from May on higher sales of petroleum and coal products, as well as chemical products.
TheTSX's financials sector .SPTTFS climbed 0.4%, whileenergy stocks.SPTTEN rose 0.35%.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures CLc1 rose 2.51% and Brent crude LCOc1 gained 1.98%. O/R
The TSX has added 12.7% for the year.
Reporting by Nikhil Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo and Devika Syamnath
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