TORONTO, July 4 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose on Wednesday led by the energy sector as oil prices climbed, while shares of financial and materials companies also gained ground.
* The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE closed up 41.56 points, or 0.26 percent, at 16,304.72.
* Nine of the index's 10 main groups ended higher.
* Volume was much lower than usual with U.S. markets closed for the Independence Day holiday.
* Energy shares advanced 0.6 percent, helped by higher oil prices. U.S. crude oil futures CLc1 were up 0.3 percent to $74.33 a barrel. O/R
* Shares of Enbridge ENB.TO rose nearly 1 percent to C$46.84. The company will sell its western Canadian natural gas gathering and processing business to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP BIP.N and its institutional partners for an enterprise value of about C$4.31 billion, the companies said. Financials, which account for about one-third of the weight of the TSX, rose 0.1 percent.
* The materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, gained 0.4 percent.
* Gold futures GCc1 rose 0.7 percent to $1,259.9 an ounce, while copper prices CMCU3 declined 1.4 percent to $6,401.59 a tonne. GOL/ MET/L
* Volume on the TSX index was 62.98 million shares.