Wall Street broker Salvatore A. Suarino, left, works the phones on the trading floor of New York Stock Exchange shortly after the market opened Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Recovery comes despite consumer sentiment data Malcolm Morrison THE CANADIAN PRESS North American stock markets chalked up huge rallies late in the afternoon today, resulting in one of the biggest one-day gains ever for the Dow Jones industrial average and a big bounce in Toronto Toronto's S&P/TSX composite index rose 614.29 points or 7.2 per cent to close at 9,151.63. That mended a good chunk of the 757-point hole dug in Toronto on Monday, when growing worries about the length and depth of a global recession pushed down Canada's main index by eight per cent. In New York, the Dow gained 889.35 points today to rise almost 11 per cent to 9,065.12 – the...
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