India, Aug. 8 -- The Canadian market is up in positive territory Friday afternoon with investors largely reacting to quarterly earnings announcements, and the nation's jobs data, in addition to weighing the impact of tariffs on global economic growth.
Data from Statistics Canada showed the Canadian economy shed 41,000 jobs in the month of July. The data also showed that the unemployment rate in Canada came in unchanged at 6.9%.
Healthcare, communications, technology and materials shares are among the prominent gainers. Consumer discretionary stocks are weak.
The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index was up 57.97 points or 0.21% at 27,819.24 a few minutes ago.
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