Source: The Canadian Press, October 31, 2018
The mining sector helped keep Canada’s growth rate positive in August.
Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product edged up 0.1 per cent in August, the seventh consecutive month to see an increase. Thomson Reuters Eikon says economists had expected no change for the month.
Growth in oil and gas extraction and the finance and insurance sector helped to more than offset declines in 12 of the 20 industrial sectors tracked by the federal agency.
