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| KOSPI | 1,973.45 | +4.26 (0.22%) |
Toronto Stocks Modestly Lower at Midday; National Bank Up
TORONTO--Canadian stocks were trading slightly lower at midday Friday, as fears of an earlier-than-expected end to stimulus in the U.S.
| 12,648.31 | -9.78 | (-0.08%) | |
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| 944.75 | +2.70 | (0.29%) | |
| 15,260.25 | -34.25 | (-0.22%) | ||
| 1,644.46 | -6.05 | (-0.37%) |
Top stories
Canadian stocks fell for a second day, led by energy producers as crude headed for its biggest weekly loss in more than a month. Athabasca Oil Corp.
New rules for U.S. meatpackers will require labeling that tells consumers where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered. Sounds simple.
Canada ranks third last among economically advanced countries in the amount of paid vacation time it guarantees its workers, a new U.S.
TORONTO�National Bank of Canada, the sixth-largest bank in Canada, raised its quarterly dividend Friday after reporting a 22% decline in second-quarter earnings reflecting last year's sale of its asset management unit.
TransCanada Corp. (TRP) won another of the remaining Texas state-court challenges by landowners trying to block construction of the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline across their property.
Trends
| Popular searches on Google | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| MBT | Manitoba Telecom Services | 4.58% | 2.27B |
| NKO | Niko Resources Ltd. | 21.37% | 510.47M |
Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | +0.0009 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 0.950% | 0.00 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.39% | +0.0100 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |