Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Healthcare and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 1.69%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were B2Gold Corp (TO:BTO), which rose 12.23% or 0.340 points to trade at 3.120 at the close. Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC) added 11.12% or 3.27 points to end at 32.67 and New Gold Inc . (TO:NGD) was up 10.54% or 0.550 points to 5.770 in late trade.
Biggest losers included First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM), which lost 9.97% or 0.98 points to trade at 8.85 in late trade. Concordia Healthcare (TO:CXR) declined 9.42% or 2.89 points to end at 27.80 and Intertain Group (TO:IT) shed 8.78% or 1.11 points to 11.53.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 893 to 296 and 99 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 30.80% to 19.79 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 4.52% or 57.15 to $1320.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 4.97% or 2.49 to hit $47.62 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 4.87% or 2.48 to trade at $48.43 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 1.75% to 0.7692, while CAD/EUR rose 0.80% to 0.6928.
The US Dollar Index was up 2.52% at 95.68.