TORONTO - The Toronto Stock Exchange concluded its last full trading week of the year on a down note as its six-day streak of gains was snapped.
The S&P/TSX composite index fell 7.08 points to 15,328.15.
Throughout the day, the market seemed poised to cap off the week with a seventh consecutive day in the positive, only to see that evaporate just before markets closed.
New York markets were relatively flat.
The S&P 500 gained 2.83 points to 2,263.79, the Dow Jones industrial average advanced 14.93 points to 19,933.81 and the Nasdaq composite rose 15.27 points to 5,462.69.
The February contract for oil rose seven cents to US$53.02 per barrel and February gold rose US$2.90 to US$1,133.60 an ounce.
The loonie fell 0.21 of a U.S. cent to 73.88 cents US.
Elsewhere in commodities, the February natural gas contract advanced about 12 cents to US$3.68 per mmBTU and March copper shed about two cents to US$2.48 per pound.
