* TSX ends down 0.3% at 34,857.34
* Materials sector loses 2.1% as gold falls
* Alamos Gold ( AGI ) tumbles 18.4%
* OSFI lowers big bank capital requirement
(Updates at market close)
By Fergal Smith
TORONTO, June 19 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell
on Friday to post a slight weekly decline, as a drop in gold
prices weighed on metal mining shares.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX Composite index
ended down 111.92 points, or 0.3%, at 34,857.34,
extending its pullback from a record closing high on Tuesday.
For the week, the index was down 0.2%.
* Global shares also dipped after U.S. and
Iranian negotiators called off peace talks. The U.S. stock
market was closed for the Juneteenth holiday.
* "Financial markets grappled with two nearly equal and
offsetting forces this week," Douglas Porter, chief economist at
BMO Capital Markets, said in a note, pointing to the preliminary
peace agreement in the Middle East and a more
hawkish-than-expected message from the Federal Reserve.
* The price of gold fell 1.2% as a hawkish Fed helped
underpin the U.S. dollar in recent days.
* The materials sector, which includes metal mining shares,
fell 2.1%.
* Shares of Alamos Gold ( AGI ) tumbled 18.4% after the
miner cut its production forecast for the second quarter.
* Capstone Copper ( CSCCF ) has identified significant
groundwater impacts across its Mantos Blancos copper mine in
northern Chile that it aims to mitigate as part of a major
expansion, according to company materials reviewed by Reuters.
The company's shares ended 4.1% lower.
* Canada's banking regulator, the Office of the
Superintendent of Financial Institutions, lowered the capital
requirement for the country's biggest banks for the first time
in three years, a move that will allow them to lend more.
* Still, the heavily weighted financials sector
dipped 0.1%.
* The price of oil clawed back some recent declines
to rise 1.2%. Energy added 0.7%.
* MDA Space ( MDA ) shares ended 6.3% higher after the
space technology firm agreed to buy U.S.-based Blue Canyon
Technologies from RTX's Raytheon business for $620
million in cash.