Decline in Canada April economic growth puts second quarter growth at risk

By Leah Schnurr OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian economy unexpectedly shrank in April, hurt by weakness in the mining and oil and gas industries, a setback that bodes poorly for a second-quarter pick-up in growth that the Bank of Canada is looking for. Gross domestic product fell 0.1 percent from March, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday, short of analysts' expectations for a gain of 0.1 percent. While economists cautioned that it is still early, the figures raised the risk that the second qu