Toronto stocks closed higher Friday boosted by gains in resource issues. The S&P/TSX composite index finished up 32.07 points, or 0.35%, at 9,056.97. Volume was light at 197 million shares.

For the week, the index was up 1%.

Six of the 10 TSX index’s main groups were higher, led by a 1.16% rise in the materials group. Gold-mining stocks, which are part of the materials group gained 1.07%. Barrick Gold rose 2.8% to $29.99, while Meridian Gold climbed 3% to$23.88.

Within the materials group, Cameco climbed 1.47%, to $117.00, while Teck Cominco jumped 3.68%, to $36.65.

Energy issues rose 0.53%, as oil prices were pushed higher by winter supply worries

Suncor Energy rose 1.43% to $41.74.

Husky Energy, which is controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Kashing, was up 4.53% to $34.88 on a report that a Chinese government agency was in talks to buy it.

The industrials group dropped 0.76% as stocks in the group fell on news of rising the oil prices.

The heavily weighed financial services group rose 0.35%. Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank and National Bank report quarterly earnings next week.

Scotiabank shares gained 0.5% to $37.28.

CIBC gained 1.07% to $71.95 despite a report that the bank CIBC has been faxing confidential information about hundreds of its customers to a scrap yard dealer in West Virginia for more than three years.

The junior S&P/TSX Venture composite index finished up 16.43 points, or 0.95%, at 1,744.17, on volume of 105 million shares.

The Canadian dollar closed above US85¢ Friday for the first time since 1992, as the U.S. dollar declined further on concerns over American trade and budget deficits.

The loonie rose 0.12 of a cent to close at US85.04¢.

On Wall Street, stocks ended the short session mixed, after hovering around the unchanged mark.

The trading day ended at 1 p.m. ET as part of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.92, or 0.02%, to 10,522.23.

Broader stock indicators were narrowly mixed. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 0.89, or 0.08%, at 1,182.65, while the Nasdaq composite index lost 0.57, or 0.03%, to 2,101.97.

For the week, the Dow rose 0.62%, the S&P 500 gained 1.05%, and the Nasdaq was up 1.51%.