Despite a few days of consecutive gains, Canada's main stock index fell lower on Friday thanks to weakness in energy and mining stocks. Official data showed the nation's economy most likely expanded in June.
It was another volatile week on Wall Street full of record-breaking highs and extreme lows that saw its main indexes end the final trading day of July lower. Investors saw three Dow stock earnings reports and another reading on inflation. NASDAQ futures retreated on a decline of more than 1% as Amazon shares fell nearly 7% after its first revenue miss in three years.
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The Canadian dollar traded for cents US compared with 80.35 cents US on Thursday.
Crude oil prices were up $0.99 to $73.71.
The price of gold was down 18.57 to $1,811.78.
In world markets, the Nikkei was down 498.83 points to 27,283.59, the Hang Seng was down 354.29 points to 25,961.03 the FTSE was down 46.12 points to 7,032.30 and the DAX was down 96.08 points to 15,544.39.
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