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Loonie shifts upwards
Jun 26, 2012 / 9:25 am
The Canadian dollar moved slightly higher early Tuesday amid soft oil prices and U.S. economic data that showed an increase in a closely watched home price index for the first time in seven months.
The loonie was ahead 0.08 of a cent at 97.24 cents US in the morning.
In commodities, the August crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange was down 13 cents at US$79.08 a barrel, adding to the decline from $110 in late February.
August gold was down $8 at US$1,580.40 an ounce, while July copper rose two cents to US$3.28 a pound.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index for April shows increases in 19 of the 20 cities tracked.
Meanwhile, concerns over the ability of Europe's leaders to agree a package of measures to deal with their debt crisis kept stock markets in check Tuesday, a day after Cyprus became the fifth euro country to ask for financial assistance from its partners in the currency zone.
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Today's Market
| S&P TSX | 12669.97 | -82.53 |
| S&P CDNX | 939.06 | -3.02 |
| DJIA | 15335.04 | +27.87 |
| Nasdaq | 3498.965 | +33.722 |
| S&P 500 | 1651.11 | -4.24 |
| Gold | 1392.00 | +24.40 |
| Lumber | 316.00 | -4.50 |
| Oil | 96.05 | -0.11 |
| Natural Gas | 4.26 | +0.074 |
| CDN Dollar | 0.9702 | N/A |
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Okanagan Companies
| Sun Rype | 6.10 | 0.00 |
| Pacific Safety | 0.07 | +0.02 |
| Knighthawk | 0.02 | 0.00 |
| QHR Technologies Inc | 0.57 | -0.03 |
| Cantex | 0.015 | 0.00 |
| Anavex Life Sciences | 0.48 | -0.04 |
| Metalex Ventures | 0.08 | -0.005 |
| Russel Metals | 26.66 | -0.06 |
| Copper Mountain Mining | 1.765 | -0.005 |
| Colorado Resources | 1.50 | +0.11 |
| ReliaBrand Inc | 0.13 | 0.00 |
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