The National
This flagship 22-minute newscast debuted in 1956, just four years after CBC Television itself. In 1982, it was the first newscast to jump from the 11 p.m. to a 10 p.m. prime-time slot. Followed by a new show called The Journal, The National soon became "must-hour" viewing for over 1.5 million Canadians. But a 1993 gamble proved disastrous when Prime Time News replaced the show in a 9 p.m. timeslot. It was bumped back to 10 p.m. a year later and renamed The National in 1995. Its anchors number among the country's top journalists, including Larry Henderson, Earl Cameron, Stanley Burke, Warren Davis, Lloyd Robertson, Peter Kent, Knowlton Nash and Peter Mansbridge.
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May 2008: TSX record highs!
Broadcast Date: May 20, 2008
The Toronto Stock Exchange is riding high today after posting record results on the day. High crude oil prices push the TSX north of 15,000 points for the first time. In this May 2008 clip, CBC-TV's Ron Charles talks to excited investors who have watched the market bounce back strongly from a worrisome slump just two months earlier. Hopes are high, but some speculators wonder if the roller coaster ride has really ended.May 2008: TSX record highs!
• In stock market terms, a point (also called a basis point) equals 1/100th of a per cent.
• The ups and downs of the market in early 2008 came after a five-year bull market between 2002-2007. It was the among the longest bull markets since the end of the Second World War. It doesn't even approach the longest postwar bull run, though; that occurred between October 1990 and March 2000, lasting nine years, five months and 13 days.
May 2008: TSX record highs!
Medium: Television
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: May 20, 2008
Guest(s): Art Howard, Patricia Mohr, Gabriel Nijmeh
Host: Peter Mansbridge
Reporter: Ron Charles
Duration: 2:09
Last updated:
Dec. 18, 2008
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May 2008: TSX record highs!.
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