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Bloomberg.com: Canada 21/6/2005

Updated: New York: Jun 21 15:57 London: Jun 21 20:57 Tokyo: Jun 22 04:57 :  Regions   RESOURCES: Canada    Canada Stocks Drop, Led by Energy Shares; EnCana, Imperial Fall June 21 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian stocks fell, led by shares of oil and natural-gas producers such as EnCana Corp. and Imperial Oil Ltd. as crude-oil prices retreated from a record. The Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index dropped 27.47, or 0.3 percent, to 9970.64 as of 2:28 p.m. in Toronto. Energy stocks accounted for almost 80 percent of the decline. The benchmark, which has advanced 7.8 percent this year, has exceeded 10,000 the past two sessions and failed to close above that level. ``Energy stocks have been the main driver and any time you get a little pull back, they will have a fairly significant impact on the Canadian market,'' said Sergio Di Vito, head of trading

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