Canadian stock market falling

TORONTO, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Canada's main stock index fell Monday as the market reopened after an outage halted trading for several hours last Friday.

The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index fell 61.05 points, or 0.39 percent, to close the day at 15,607.88.

Seven of the index's 10 main groups were down.

The Canadian dollar gained 0.23 cents to 0.7791 U.S. dollar

The largest decliner was Detour Gold, dipping 78 cents, or 7.7 percent, to 9.27 Canadian dollars.

Metro Inc. declined 52 cents, or 1.3 percent, to 40.89 Canadian dollars while Loblaw Companies decreased 48 cents to 65.46 Canadian dollars.

Among the materials group, Agnico Eagle Mines declined 4 percent to 54.17 Canadian dollars while Hudbay Minerals lost three cents to 8.96 Canadian dollars.

Health-care stocks were leaders among those into green, with Aurora Cannabis up 5.1 percent to 8.05 Canadian dollars, while Valeant Pharmaceuticals gained nearly one percent to 23.27 Canadian dollars.

One of the largest percentage gainers was Prometic Life Scan, up 2.6 percent to 0.79 Canadian dollars.

In the tech group, BlackBerry rose a penny to 13.50 Canadian dollars while Constellation Software surged 5.94 dollars to 925 Canadian dollars. Enditem