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TSX futures showed modest gains before Monday’s market open, continuing to ride the momentum from last week’s interest rate cut from the Bank of Canada, as well as the gold price’s resounding march up and to the right as investors hedge against geopolitical uncertainty. The index begins the week following seven straight weekly gains.

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Market numbers

TSX: Up (1.07%), 29,768.36.

TSXV: Up (2.88%), 904.80.

DOW: Up (0.37%), 46,493.

NASDAQ: Up (0.90%), 24,780.

FTSE: Up (0.31%), 9,264.50.

In the headlines

The U.S. antitrust crackdown on Big Tech firms continues on Monday with Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google, whom the U.S. Department of Justice is taking to court in an attempt to force the company to sell its ad exchange business, which pays Google a 20 per cent fee for all ads that appear on the search engine. Similar cases remain pending against Meta (NASDAQ:META), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).

In other technology news, U.S. President Trump noted on Sunday that Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) founder Larry Ellison, Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) founder Michael Dell and News Corp. chairman Lachlan Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, will all sign on as investors in the U.S.’s bid to acquire a majority of TikTok’s North American assets. The China-controlled social media app boasts 170 million U.S. users, making it a key lever to shape the national discourse.

Currencies

US: Down (0.23%), US$0.7237.

Euro: Down (0.49%), €0.6147.

GBP: Down (0.41%), £0.5362.

AUD: Down (0.21%), $1.0976.

JPY: Down (0.25%), ¥107.073.

Bitcoin: Down (2.15%), US$112,804.73.

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Commodities

Natural Gas: Down (1.85%), US$2.872.

WTI: Down (0.73%), US$62.303.

Gold: Up (1.06%), US$3,723.41.

Copper: Up (0.12%), US$4.651.

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