April 30 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index hovered near its six-week high on Monday, led by financial and industrial shares, after an outage halted trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Friday.
* At 9:43 a.m. ET (1343 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX Composite Index .GSPTSE rose 24.09 points, or 0.15 percent, to 15,693.02.
* TMX Group Ltd X.TO , which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and smaller Canadian trading platforms, said in a statement on Saturday that the failure of data storage equipment caused the outage. Shares of TMX Group Ltd X.TO were down 2.5 percent.
* Nine of Canada's 10 main index sectors were higher, led by the financial sector.
* Shares of Royal Bank of Canada RY.TO and Toronto-Dominion bank TD.TO were up around 0.4 percent each, providing the biggest boost to the financial index.
* Also helping the main index was the industrials group, boosted by Air Canada AC.TO , which gained 1.6 percent after reporting a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss. The materials index was the only laggard, dragged down by lower gold prices.
* Gold fell to its lowest in nearly six weeks as the dollar strengthened, while easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite for assets seen as higher risk. GOL/
* Shares of TransCanada Corp TRP.TO fell 1 percent after the company reported first-quarter results on Friday.
* Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited FFH.TO declined 0.8 percent after Toys "R" Us (Canada) Ltd on Friday received U.S. and Canadian court approval to sell itself to the company.
* The TSX posted two new 52-week highs and three new lows. Across all Canadian issues there were five new 52-week highs and eight new lows.
* The largest percentage gainer on the TSX was Prometic Life Scan PLI.TO after the company said its primary immunodeficiency treatment met the main goal in a late-stage study.
* The largest decliner was Detour Gold Corp DGC.TO after brokerages cut their price targets on the stock.
* Among the most active Canadian stocks by volumes were Katanga Mining KAT.TO , Potash Ridge Corp PRK.TO and Aurora Cannabis ACB.TO .
* Volume on the TSX index was 14.15 million shares, compared with 25.64 million shares on Friday.
* Economic data showed Canadian producer prices increased by 0.8 percent in March from February on higher prices of energy and petroleum products as well as paper and pulp.