Toronto buyers bring TSX index off lows of day

The TSX composite index is down more than 1,000 points since early September and it was down again today (Wednesday, October 15, 2014)  There’s lots of talk among some poeople about finding bargains to buy. Thing is, the preferred stocks like the banks have yet to fall all that much. No one wants to buy energy. And yet today was a wild ride of bulls and bears in Toronto and New York. Toronto was down 166 points but that brought it back from the low of the day when it was down 300. The Dow Jones industrial was down 173.58 points after being off more than 400 points earlier in the day.