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Canada's economy just had its worst quarter since the financial crisis

Published 08/31/2016, 08:30 AM
Updated 08/31/2016, 09:14 AM
© Mike Sturk/Reuters, A pink elephant balloon, one of the entries in the Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championships, lands in a field in High River September 27, 2013. The event is a qualifier for the World Hot Air Balloon Championships in Sao Paulo in 2014.

Canada's economy just had its worst quarter since the financial crisis.

Real GDP fell by 0.4% in the second quarter, after rising by 0.6% in the first, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.

The report notes that this is the largest decline in quarterly GDP since the second quarter of 2009.

Meanwhile, the annualized quarter-over-quarter GDP fell by 1.6%, below expectations of a 1.5% drop.

On the positive side, the economy grew by 0.6% month-over-month in June, above economists' expectations of a 0.4% increase.

The Canadian dollar is weaker by 0.2% at 1.3123 per dollar as of 8:41 a.m. ET.

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