(Updates throughout with closing prices)
TORONTO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell on
Friday, closing at its lowest level in five months, reflecting
weakness in mining stocks as gold futures and copper prices
declined.
* The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index
closed down 31.08 points, or 0.21 percent, to
15,034.53.
* Of the index's 10 main industry groups, seven ended in
negative territory.
* The materials group, which includes precious and base
metals miners and fertilizer companies, lost 1.1 percent.
* Guyana Gold slid by 7.6 percent, Eldorado Gold
shed 7.1 percent, New Gold dropped by 6.3
percent and Oceangold Corp was down 5.9 percent.
* The largest percentage decliner was Sierra Wireless Inc
, down 13.6 percent, after the company reported a
fourth-quarter loss after the bell on Thursday.
* U.S. gold futures settled down 0.3 percent at
$1,315.70 an ounce.
* Copper prices declined 1.4 percent to $6,750 a
tonne.
* The index was posting no new 52-week highs and 50 new
lows.
* The Canadian economy lost the most jobs in nine years in
January, pulling back after a robust 2017 and solidifying
expectations the Bank of Canada will hold interest rates steady
next month .
(Reporting by Fergal Smith, editing by G Crosse)
