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CANADA STOCKS-TSX rises, led by bank and railroad shares

Published 2018-01-19, 05:24 p/m
© Reuters.  CANADA STOCKS-TSX rises, led by bank and railroad shares
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* TSX closes up 68.99 points, or 0.42 percent, at 16,353.46

* Nine of the index's 10 main groups end higher

* Financials climb 0.6 percent, industrials gain 1.2 percent

TORONTO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose on Friday in a broad-based rally led by financial and industrial shares, while lower oil prices weighed on energy stocks.

* The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE closed up 68.99 points, or 0.42 percent, at 16,353.46.

* For the week, the index rose 0.3 percent.

* Some of the most influential movers on the index were the country's major banks. Royal Bank of Canada RY.TO rose 0.8 percent to C$107.72, while Toronto-Dominion Bank TD.TO added 0.4 percent to C$74.08.

* The overall financial services group, which accounts for more than one-third of the TSX's weight, gained 0.6 percent, while the materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, added 0.8 percent.

* Barrick Gold Corp ABX.TO climbed 1.6 percent to C$17.99. Gold futures GCc1 rose 0.5 percent to $1,333 an ounce. GOL/

* Industrials advanced 1.2 percent as railroad stocks gained ground.

* Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd CP.TO was up 2.8 percent at C$233.40 after the company reported on Thursday fourth-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates.

* Canadian manufacturing sales jumped 3.4 percent in November, their biggest increase in 2-1/2 years, on strength in transportation equipment and petroleum and coal products, Statistics Canada said. Nine of the index's 10 main groups gained.

* Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) Canada Ltd KML.TO climbed nearly 7 percent to C$17.91 after Canada's National Energy Board on Thursday set out a process for resolving permit disputes related to the company's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Still, the energy group fell 0.4 percent. U.S. crude oil futures CLc1 settled 0.9 percent lower at $63.37 a barrel.

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