Shares of Kinross Gold Corp. K, +7.79% advanced 7.79% to C$5.67 Friday, in what proved to be an otherwise all-around poor trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE, -0.77% falling 0.77% to 19,387.72.
Kinross Gold Corp. closed C$2.32 short of its 52-week high (C$7.99), which the company reached on April 11th. Trading volume of 13.6 M shares eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 3.4 M.