The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, Oct. 6, edition that Canada's main stock index rose for a second straight day on Thursday, led by gains for interest-rate sensitive sectors, such as utilities and financials, as bond yields eased back from recent highs. A Reuters dispatch to The Globe reports that the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX Composite Index ended up 103 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 19,137.81, adding to a modest rebound after posting on Tuesday its lowest closing level in one year at 19,020.92. Allan Small, senior investment adviser of the Allan Small Financial Group with iA Private Wealth says: "Government yields are everything right now. Yields today are pretty much in check, which means a good day for bank stocks." Energy advanced 0.2 per cent despite oil settling 2.3 per cent lower at $82.31 a barrel and the materials sector, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, added 0.9 per cent. The advance was helped by a gain of 3.4 per cent for the shares of Lundin Mining as Reuters reported that the miner is in talks with Japanese trading houses and large miners to offer an interest of between 40 per cent and 50 per cent in Argentina's Josemaria mine.