TORONTO, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Canada's main stock market rebounded due to heath-care stocks on Friday after its five-day losing streak.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index rose 97.16 points, or 0.63 percent, to close Friday at 15,414.29 points.
The Canadian dollar edged down 0.03 cents to 0.7671 U.S. dollar.
Among heath-care stocks, Aurora Cannabis jumped 8.2 percent to 13.66 Canadian dollars while Canopy Growth rose 5.7 percent to 64.75 Canadian dollars.
In the tech group, Shopify Inc rose 3.3 percent to 172.20 Canadian dollars while BlackBerry edged up eight cents to 12.48 Canadian dollars.
In the industrial sector, Element Fleet Management added 1.7 percent to 8.25 Canadian dollars and Bombardier advanced 5.2 percent to 4.02 Canadian dollars.
Gold stocks were also down. New Gold fell 4.2 percent to 1.03 Canadian dollars while Barrick Gold declined 1.2 percent to 16.25 Canadian dollars.
