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Feb Factory Sales +0.5% to CAD56.2B,....>

CANADA DATA
CANADA DATA: Feb Factory Sales +0.5% to CAD56.2B, MNI Median 0.0%
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- Transportation equipment (+4%) drives increase. 
- Sales ex-autos -0.7%. 
- Gains were partially offset by machinery (-6.0%), aerospace product/parts
(-9.3%), petroleum/coal product (-2.2%) and food (-1.0%). 
- Rail blockade took 0.8pp of sales gain. 
- COVID-19 disruptions lowered Feb sales, with 9.2% of firms reporting
disruptions, see major drop in March sales involving China. 
- In constant dollars, total sales +0.8% M/M. 
- Inventories -1.0% to CAD86.9B.

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