Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Industrials, Materials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Cameco Corp (TO:CCO), which rose 10.15% or 1.46 points to trade at 15.85 at the close. Milestone Apartments REIT (TO:MST_u) added 9.87% or 1.94 points to end at 21.60 and Dorel Industries Inc (TO:DIIb) was up 6.05% or 2.15 points to 37.68 in late trade.
Biggest losers included West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd . (TO:WFT), which lost 3.56% or 1.66 points to trade at 44.91 in late trade. Canfor Corporation (TO:CFP) declined 3.23% or 0.48 points to end at 14.36 and Klondex Mines Ltd. (TO:KDX) shed 2.91% or 0.200 points to 6.680.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 593 to 549 and 142 ended unchanged on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 4.52% to 13.18.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.61% or 7.45 to $1204.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.65% or 0.33 to hit $51.41 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.57% or 0.31 to trade at $54.23 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.33% to 0.7510, while CAD/EUR fell 0.63% to 0.7043.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.20% at 101.11.