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The Toronto stock market closed higher amid dismal employment data from both Canada and the United States.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 69.72 points to 11,250.42.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.83 of a cent to 93 cents US as more than 43,000 jobs were lost in Canada last month, a huge miss compared with the consensus by economists, who had forecast the addition of 10,000 jobs. The unemployment rate jumped two-tenths of a point to 8.6% .

And in the U.S., 190,000 jobs were lost against estimates of about 175,000, with the jobless rate rising to 10.2% from 9.8%.

The Toronto market ran up 3.11% this week, in large part because of rising gold prices, after losing 4.14% last week. The TSX gold sector alone ran up 11.35% this week as bullion closed up $6.40 to a record high close of US$1,095.70 an ounce. Oil closed down $2.19 to US$77.43 a barrel.

New York markets were slightly higher as the Dow Jones industrials was up 17.46 points to 10,023.42 for a gain of 3.19% this week. The Nasdaq composite index gained 7.12 points to 2,112.44 and the S&P 500 index added 2.67 points to 1,069.3.

(The Canadian Press)

North American markets

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Dow Jones	10,023.42	+17.46 or +0.17%	+14.21%
S&P 500	1,069.30	+2.67 or +0.25%	+18.38%
NASDAQ	2,112.44	+7.12 or +0.34%	+33.95%
TSX Composite	11,250.42	+69.72 or +0.62%	+25.18%

International markets

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	Open	Change	YTD
Nikkei	9,789.35	+71.91 or +0.74%	+10.49%
Hang Seng	21,829.72	+350.64 or +1.63%	+51.73%
SENSEX	16,158.28	+94.38 or +0.59%	+67.49%
FTSE 100	5,142.72	+17.08 or +0.33%	+15.98%
CAC 40	3,707.29	-1.44 or -0.04%	+15.21%
DAX	5,488.25	+7.33 or +0.13%	+14.10%

Bonds

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Bonds	$Current	$Previous	%Yield
Cdn. 10-year bond	101.86	101.88	3.52
Cdn. 30-year bond	116.10	116.20	4.03
U.S. 10-year bond	101.00	100.81	3.50
U.S. 30-year bond	101.69	101.62	4.40

Currency

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BoC Close	Today	Previous
Canadian $	0.9210	0.9383
US $	1.0753	1.0658

Euro Spot Rate	Today	Previous
Canadian $	0.6264	0.6308
Euro	1.5963	1.5853

Commodities

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Gold	AM	PM
London Gold Fix ($US)	$1,095.00	$1,096.75

Oil	Open	Change
WTI Crude Future (US)	$77.62	-$2.00 or -2.51%

(11/06/09)