Dec 30 (Reuters) - Futures for Canada's main stock index
were marginally lower on Monday, as investors seemed to take a
breather after the country's bourse hit a record high on Friday.
March futures on the S&P/TSX index SXFc1 were slightly
down 0.05% at 7:00 a.m. ET.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's TSX .GSPTSE closed down
0.07%to 17,168.21 on Friday, after hitting a record high of
17,230.58. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2912WC urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2912C3
Dow Jones Industrial Average e-mini futures 1YMc1 were up
0.07% at 7:05 a.m. ET, while S&P 500 e-mini futures ESc1 were
up 0.06% and Nasdaq 100 e-mini futures NQc1 were up 0.04%.
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TOP STORIES TOP/CAN
U.S. satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies Inc
MAXR.N said it would sell its space robotics business to a
consortium led by Northern Private Capital (NPC) for C$1
billion, in a bid to ease its debt. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2941R3
ANALYST RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS RCH/CA
Morguard Corp MRC.TO : RBC raises price target to C$221
from C$217
Conifex Timber Inc (CFF.TO): TD Securities raises rating to
"hold" from "reduce"
COMMODITIES AT 7:05 a.m. ET COM/WRAP
Gold futures GCc2 : $1514.1; fell 0.26% GOL/
US crude CLc1 : $62.08; rose 0.58% O/R
Brent crude LCOc1 : $68.85; rose 1.01% O/R
U.S. ECONOMIC DATA DUE ON MONDAY
0830 Advance goods trade balance for Nov: Expected -$68.75
bln; prior -$66.80 bln
0830 Wholesale inventories for Nov: Prior 0.1%
0830 Retail inventories ex-auto for Nov: Prior 0.7%
0945 (apporx.) Chicago PMI for Dec: Expected 48.0; prior
46.3
1000 Pending Homes Index for Nov: Prior 106.7
1000 Pending home sales for Nov: Expected 1.2%; prior -1.7%
1030 (approx.) Dallas Fed Manufacturing Business Index for
Dec: Prior -1.30
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($1 = C$1.31)
(Reporting by Sourav Bose in Bengaluru;
Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
((sourav.bose@thomsonreuters.com))