TORONTO _ The Toronto stock market registered a loss on the last day of third quarter trading as resource stocks suffered amid weakness in the Canadian and Chinese economies.
The S&P/TSX composite index gave back 16.41 points to 14,960.51. A string of reverses this month centred on economic worries and the timing of future rate hikes led to the main Toronto index chalking up a 4.26 per cent loss, its first monthly decline in four months.
The market is still up almost 10 per cent year to date.
The Canadian dollar was down 0.37 of a cent to a fresh, six-month low of 89.29 cents US after Canadian gross domestic product was flat during July following a 0.3 per cent rise in June.
And HSBC's monthly purchasing managers' index showed that China's manufacturing activity in September held steady at the previous month's low level, indicating the world's second-largest economy faces risks to growth.
The Dow Jones industrials were down 28.32 points to 17,042.9, ending the month with a small loss. The Nasdaq declined 12.46 points to 4,493.39 while the S&P 500 index shed 5.51 points to 1,972.29.
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