April 2 (Reuters) -
* At 9:52 a.m. ET (1352 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange'sS&P/TSX Composite Index fell 87.97 points, or 0.57percent, to 15,279.32.
* The financial and energy sectors that together make up formore than half the weight of TSX slipped about 35 points each.
* Enbridge and TransCanada Corp fell morethan 1 percent each and were the biggest drag on the energysector as crude prices slipped.
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* Oil fell to around
* The materials sector, which takes up nearly 12 percent ofthe index's weight, along with utilities sector were the onlytwo among the 11 sectors in positive territory.
* The largest percentage gainer on the TSX was the shares ofthe printing company Transcontinental, which rose 6.1percent on a deal to buy the
* The largest decliner was Prometic Life Sciences,down 6.8 percent, after two brokerages trimmed their pricetargets on the stock.
* Among the most active Canadian stocks by volume werePrometic Life Sciences, Aurora Cannabis, andNeovasc Inc.
* The TSX posted four new 52-week highs and two new lows.Across all Canadian issues there were 11 new 52-week highs and12 new lows.
* Volume on the TSX index was 19.41 million shares, whilethe total volume on Monday was 31.29 million shares.(Reporting by Medha Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
