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* TSX down 108.24 points, or 0.81 percent, to 13,281.95
* Nine of the TSX's 10 main groups fall
TORONTO, March 29 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index
sustained broad-based losses on Tuesday, as a drop in oil prices
weighed on the resource-linked market.
The most influential movers included Suncor Energy Inc
SU.TO , which fell 2.1 percent to C$35.05, and Royal Bank of
Canada RY.TO , which declined 0.7 percent to C$74.21.
The overall energy group retreated 2.2 percent, while
financials were down 0.7 percent.
U.S. crude prices CLc1 were down 3.4 percent to $38.07 a
barrel, while Brent crude LCOc1 lost 3.1 percent to
$39.01.
The materials group, which includes precious and base metals
miners and fertilizer companies, lost 0.7 percent.
It included a 5.2 percent drop in the shares of Teck
Resources Ltd TCKb.TO to C$9.25.
At 10:34 a.m. EDT (1434 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange's
S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE was down 108.24 points, or
0.81 percent, to 13,281.95. Nine of the index's 10 main groups
were lower.
Australia's Qube Holdings Ltd QUB.AX and Canada's
Brookfield Asset Management Inc BAMa.TO are raising a A$1
billion ($753 million) loan to help pay for the ports business
of Asciano Ltd AIO.AX , in a carve-up of Australia's largest
ports and rail operator, people familiar with the transaction
said.
The shares of Brookfield fell 0.3 percent to C$44.34.
Kinross Gold rose 4.5 percent to C$4.17, helped by
strengthening in the price of gold XAU= ahead of a speech by
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. GOL/
The shares of Amaya Inc AYA.TO rose 3.8 percent to C$15.37
after the gambling website operator said its chief executive was
taking an indefinite paid leave of absence.