Canada's main stock index
see-sawed o n F riday as more weak China data hurt some energy
stocks, but fertilizer maker Potash Corp gained after the United
States slashed the size of its corn crop.
Adding to unease, Canada said its labor market unexpectedly
shed jobs in July.
A big undershoot in China's July exports soured the mood for
the resource-heavy Toronto index, as concern about slower
commodity demand offset hopes for stimulus measures.
Weakness in the market is "primarily on the back of the
Chinese data and at the same time confirmation that we're
getting from international companies in the U.S. suggesting that
global slowdown is certainly a concern for all of them," said
Sid Mokhtari, director of institutional equity research at CIBC
World Markets.
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