U.S. stocks, struggling to maintain record-setting altitude in 2018, took a firmer slide Wednesday afternoon amid a report that Canadian officials expect that President Donald Trump will end the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to a Reuters. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off about 41 points, or 0.2%, at 25,344, the S&P 500 index was off 0.3% at 2,743, while the Nasdaq Composite Index retreated 0.4% at 7,134. The main benchmarks had been treading water, trying to recover from an earlier slide, before reports about Nafta surfaced. The U.S. dollar also strengthened against Canada’s loonie and the Mexico’s peso . Discussion to redraft the 23-year old trade pact between Mexico, Canada and the U.S. has been thorny.
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