Canada's main stock market fell Thursday for a sixth straight session due to losses in the energy sector amid sliding oil prices over ongoing uncertainty about NAFTA trade talks.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index declined 36.63 points, 0.23 percent, to finish Thursday at 16,100.94 points.
Base metals, energy and information technology sectors closed down by as much as 2.3 percent while the cannabis-heavy health-care sector, materials and gold also ended lower.
The most active companies traded on the market are Aphria Inc. jumping 15.53 percent to 21.35 Canadian dollars on 20.6 million shares, and Aurora Cannabis Inc. falling 5.65 percent to 8.19 Canadian dollars on 19.2 million shares while Canopy Growth Corp., down 2.85 percent to 66.52 Canadian dollars on nine million shares.
