It was a flattish type day during Tuesday trading on the Canadian markets, with investors electing to move to the sidelines ahead of key job figures due out on Friday. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange tacked on a modest 0.04%, while the TSX Gold Index fell 0.7% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, lost 0.41% with the decliners issuers edging out the advancers by a 317 to 295 margin on a paltry 81 million shares traded.