Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Industrials, Materials and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were CCL Industries Inc (TO:CCLb), which rose 6.65% or 18.14 points to trade at 290.77 at the close. Surge Energy Inc . (TO:SGY) added 5.99% or 0.160 points to end at 2.830 and Maple Leaf Foods Inc . (TO:MFI) was up 5.21% or 1.56 points to 31.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM), which lost 6.50% or 0.99 points to trade at 14.23 in late trade. HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) declined 6.36% or 0.69 points to end at 10.16 and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) shed 5.45% or 0.260 points to 4.510.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 582 to 573 and 140 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 16.86% to 11.99.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 1.35% or 16.65 to $1249.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.47% or 0.79 to hit $54.38 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.15% or 0.64 to trade at $56.48 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.46% to 0.7631, while CAD/EUR rose 0.17% to 0.7211.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.34% at 100.97.