YEAR IN REVIEW - Top Searches of 2008

TOP FINANCE SEARCH

Toronto Stock Exchange (REUTERS/Mark Blinch)

In a year of living dangerously, the financial crisis had nervous readers watching their portfolios plummet and their retirement savings disappear. Housing woes and sinking commodities have left people more divided about the stock outlook than they have been in years.

Searches in finance this year ranged from bankrupted companies, fluctuating gas prices, the sinking Canadian dollar and the Bank of Canada with their anxiously awaited rate cuts. The top search in 2008 was the TSX which saw record lows leaving many people worrying about their financial security. More