After a session of rallying record gains, Canada’s main stock index fell lower on Thursday, along with Wall Street markets, as a jump in reported cases of novel coronavirus pulled down the energy sector. European and Asian markets had also been seeing decent gains until this downward slide.
The S&P/TSX Composite Index was down 11.68 points to 17,821.17, and the TSX Venture Exchange was down 0.73 of a point to 571.00.
The Canadian dollar traded for 75.44 cents US compared with an average of 75.41 cents US on Wednesday.
Crude oil prices were up $0.43 to $51.60.
The price of gold was up $8.64 to $1,576.04.
In US markets; the Dow lost 135.30 points to 29,416.12, the NASDAQ fell 13.99 points to 9,711.97, and the S&P 500 gave up 5.51 points to 3,373.94.
In world markets; the Nikkei declined 33.43 points to 23,827.73, the Hang Seng retreated 93.34 points to 27,730.00 the FTSE was down 81.44 points to 7,452.03, and the DAX shed 4.35 points to 13,745.43