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S&P/TSX 60

stock market index

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ503065 ↗
Source-derived summary

The S&P/TSX 60 Index is a stock market index of 60 large companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Launched on December 30, 1998 by the Canadian S&P Index Committee, a unit of S&P Dow Jones Indices, the index has components across nine sectors of the Canadian economy. The index forms the S&P/TSX Composite Index alongside the S&P/TSX Completion Index, as well as being the Canadian component of the S&P Global 1200.

Constituents

As of January 31, 2026 the constituents were:

Sector weights

The weighting of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) as of January 31, 2026 are:

TSX 60-based funds

The iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index Fund (TSX: XIU) and the Global X S&P/TSX 60 Index ETF (TSX: HXT) are Canadian exchange-traded index funds that are tied to the S&P/TSX 60.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “S&P/TSX 60” as stock market index. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 1200, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-12-30. The account is most persuasive where stock, market and index can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “S&P/TSX 60” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.