By Nichola Saminather
* The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite indexwas trading up 15.25 points, or 0.1 percent, at15,552.52 at 9:57 a.m. ET (1457 GMT), after opening 0.27 percenthigher. It is on track to end the week 1.06 percent higher.
* The Canadian economy added 15,400 jobs in February after abig loss in January, but full-time positions shrank and wagegrowth decelerated.
* Detour Gold was the biggest gainer on the TSX,rising 5.9 percent, after reporting revenues and earnings thatbeat expectations.
* The 10 best performers on the index were dominated byenergy and mining companies, including Baytex Energy Corp, NuVista Energy Ltd and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, which were lifted by strong earnings and higher oiland metal prices.
* Copper futures advanced nearly 1 percent to
* Gold companies did not fare so well, with Tahoe Resources, Yamana Gold Inc and Klondex Mines Ltdamong the 10 biggest decliners.
* Gold futures slipped 0.4 percent to
* The biggest decliner on the index was Enghouse Systems Ltd, which dropped 5 percent after reporting first-quarterprofit that missed expectations after the bell on Thursday.
* The consumer cyclicals group was the sector with the mostgains, rising 0.2 percent, while the telecommunications groupposted the biggest declines, falling 0.2 percent.
* Bombardier Inc and Baytex were the most activelytraded stocks on the index.
* There were 136 advancing issues and 105 declining ones.Nine were flat.(Reporting by Nichola Saminather; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
