CANADA FX DEBT-C$ at weakest since March as oil weighs

Published 2016-07-25, 10:03 a/m
© Reuters.  CANADA FX DEBT-C$ at weakest since March as oil weighs
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* Canadian dollar at C$1.3208, or 75.71 U.S. cents

* Bond prices mixed across the maturity curve

TORONTO, July 25 (Reuters) - The commodity-linked Canadian dollar on Monday hit its weakest level against its U.S. counterpart since March, hurt by a slide in oil prices on concerns about oversupply and economic headwinds.

* At 9:46 a.m. EDT (1346 GMT), the Canadian dollar CAD=D4 was trading at C$1.3208 to the greenback, or 75.71 U.S. cents, weaker than the Bank of Canada's official close of C$1.3146, or 76.07 U.S. cents.

* The currency's strongest level of the session was C$1.3125, while at one point it touched C$1.3225, its weakest since March 28.

* U.S. crude CLc1 prices were down 2 percent at $43.29 a barrel, while Brent crude LCOc1 lost 1.8 percent to $44.88. O/R

* Canada's economy should rebound "over the course of the year" from the impact of a wildfire in its energy heartland, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Saturday on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Chengdu, China. The Canadian dollar was underperforming most of its key currency counterparts.

* Canadian government bond prices were mixed across the maturity curve, with the two-year CA2YT=RR price down 1 Canadian cent to yield 0.568 percent and the benchmark 10-year CA10YT=RR rising 2 Canadian cents to yield 1.097 percent.

* The Canada-U.S. two-year bond spread was -15.1 basis points, while the 10-year spread was -46.8 basis points.

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