TORONTO, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Canada's main stock market in Toronto Thursday rose steadily for four days in a row as a rally in giant banks helped offset the slump in resources shares. Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard & Poor'sTSX Composite Index was higher 68.80 points or 0.47 percent to 14 Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit 2.0 Dusty Cactus Black ,731. 08 points, the fourth consecutive rise this week.

Resources shares tumbled for a second consecutive day with Energy down 0.35 percent and Metals and mining diving 2.54 percent when oil and gold prices were losing ground.

However, the losses were overpowered by non-resources stocks when the most influential sector Financials added 0.77 percent with a big rally in banks shares, after they digested the stimulus from the interest rate cut by Bank of Canada on Wednesday.

According to the central bank Cheap Men's Nike Air Vapormax 2 Flyknit Laser Orange Black , its target for the overnight rate was lowered to 0.5 percent, when the Canadian economy is slowing down due to the negative influence of the oil prices plunge.

Canada's biggest bank Royal Bank of Canada rose 0.85 percent to 77.91 Canadian dollars (about 60.07 U.S. dollars) while Toronto- Dominion Bank, the second largest lender in Canada, rallied 1.12 percent to 53.30 Canadian dollars Cheap Nike Air VaporMax Moc 2 University Red Women's , and the third biggest lender Bank of Nova Scotia advanced 1.26 percent to 64.93 Canadian dollars.

Utilities, up 2.16 percent, logged the biggest increase once again Thursday when the gas and electricity distributor Fortis jumping 3.12 percent to 38.36 Canadian dollars.

In other gainers, Health Care climbed higher 0.89 percent while Industrials edged up 0.51 percent.

On the economic front Cheap Women's Nike Air VaporMax 2.0 Light Cream , Statistics Canada reported that foreign investors reduced their holdings of Canadian securities by 5.4 billion Canadian dollars in May, led by a divestment in equities. Meanwhile, Canadian investors added 5.6 billion Canadian dollars of foreign securities to their portfolios%2