CANADA STOCKS-Golds help TSX fight back from 3-month low

Thomson Reuters






* TSX up 49.65 points, or 0.45 percent, at 11,178.41

* Rally by gold miners boosts market; Barrick up 4.7 pct
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TORONTO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index crept
back into positive territory on Friday afternoon after touching
a three-month low, as steady bullion prices helped lift gold
miners.

Barrick Gold led the influential names on the
upside, climbing 4.7 percent to C$38.17. Goldcorp rose
6.3 percent to C$37.81 and Agnico-Eagle climbed 6.5
percent to C$57.55, helped by steady gold prices at
around $1,065 an ounce. [GOL/]

Francis Campeau, broker at MF Global Canada, in Montreal
also said investors were repositioning at the end of the week,
given the recent selloff.

"The move higher was done in such a swift manner it can't
be anything more, at this point, than a short squeeze," said
Campeau.

"It's all over the place. A lot of jitters, lots of
volatility," he said of the market action on Friday.

At 3:33 p.m. (2033 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange's
S&P/TSX composite index was up 49.65 points, or 0.45
percent, at 11,178.41. Earlier in the session, the index
touched its lowest level since early November.
(Reporting by Jennifer Kwan; editing by Rob Wilson)