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00:00Good morning, here's your market open for May 15. TSX Futures took a breather Thursday after
00:08a solid run as trade deal jitters and a wait-and-see stance ahead of the Fed chair's speech kept
00:13investors on edge. Futures of the TSX index were down 0.08% as of 6.15 Eastern Time. The
00:20venture drops 1% and futures of the Dow and the Nasdaq are both down over 100 points.
00:24What's in the headlines this morning? Well, a number of tariff-hit products at the grocery
00:28store could soon spike as pre-tariff inventory runs out, said Loblaw chief executive PerBank.
00:34And Ontario drops its budget Thursday with Premier Ford teasing big infrastructure spends to counter
00:39the hit from Trump's tariffs. Economic stimulus is expected to take centre stage.
00:45Skipping over to currency futures where the Canadian dollar sticks at 71 cents US,
00:49also on the decline against the euro and Bitcoin subtracts over 2,000 points.
00:53And bookending with commodity futures where copper forfeits half a percent,
00:57gold is down slightly, WTI falls more than 3% to $63 US a barrel,
01:03and natural gas leaves behind over 1%. That's your Market Open. I'm Lindsay Melchick. Have a great day.