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Canada’s leading economic indicators index, a measure of future economic activity, rose a slightly less than-expected 0.9% m/m to 231.1 in January, an eighth consecutive monthly rise, after a 1.5% m/m December gain that was the largest in almost 27 years, LEI data from Statistics Canada showed, pointing to continuing Canadian economic growth. Eight of the 10 LEI components climbed in January, led by a 1.3% m/m advance in the housing index.