Canadian dollar whipsawed as market mood swings 'from greedy to fearful' Add to ... Michael Babad. The Globe and Mail.

Video: How much higher can U.S. stocks go? The loonie, as the dollar coin is known in Canada, has lost more than 4 per cent this year, which puts the currency �exactly in the middle of the pack,� said senior economist Benjamin Reitzes of BMO Nesbitt Burns.

The Canadian dollar extended a decline to a two-month low against its U.S. peer after retail sales stagnated in March, boosting bets the Bank of Canada will move away from its bias to raise interest rates.

�Ordinarily, we might expect the Canadian dollar to benefit from an accelerating U.S. economy. If the U.S. economy is doing better, what about growth-related currencies in the G10?

Porter, speaking in an interview Tuesday at Bloomberg's Canada Economic Summit in Toronto, said the Canadian dollar will continue to be supported by safe-haven flows in the next couple of years, keeping it trading near parity with the U.S.

Toronto-Dominion Bank says the loonie, now at near par, will tumble to 90 cents by early next year, before recovering to 93 cents by the end of 2014.

In trading on Wednesday, shares of the Canadian Dollar Trust ETF (AMEX: FXC) entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $95.71 per share.

The Canadian dollar is higher early Thursday, retracing its decline to a fresh yearly low it touched during overnight trading after a gauge of China's economy showed contraction for the first time in seven months.

TORONTO - The Canadian dollar headed lower Friday after Statistics Canada reported that consumer prices rose last month at the slowest rate it's seen in more than three years.

A Canadian dollar, left, and a Euro are seen next to a series of U.S. dollars in this January 26, 2011 photo in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson.