By Commodity News Service Canada
WINNIPEG, Nov. 14 – The Canadian dollar closed lower
Tuesday as losses in the price of oil and the S&P/TSX weighed it
down.
Oil prices slipped Tuesday by 2.52 per cent to $55.33 a
barrel for crude.
The Canadian dollar settled Tuesday at US$0.7854 or
C$1.2733, compared to Friday’s North America close of US$0.7885
or C$1.2683.
In Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite Index was down 113.13
points, or 0.71 per cent, to 15,913.13.
Canada’s agricultural sector performed as follows:
AGT Food and Ingredients—–up $ 0.26 at $ 18.42
Agrium Incorporated———-dn $ 1.40 at $134.10
Buhler Industries————dn $ 0.15 at $ 4.45
Maple Leaf Foods————-up $ 0.17 at $ 33.51
Potash Corp. of Sask———dn $ 0.12 at $ 24.06
(All figures are in Canadian dollars.)
