The second quarter of 2017 proved to be challenging, with the month of June being particularly tough. Small cap stocks in Canada fell in Q2, with the S&P / TSX Small Cap Index falling -5.5% leaving the index down -4.1% in 2017. The Canadian large cap market faired better with S&P TSX quarter down -1.6% and +0.7% for the year. As the table below shows, Canadian stocks have substantially underperformed the global markets so far in 2017.
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