Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Industrials and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Concordia Healthcare (TO:CXR), which rose 14.53% or 4.30 points to trade at 33.89 at the close. New Flyer Industries Inc (TO:NFI) added 9.46% or 3.52 points to end at 40.73 and Veresen Inc . (TO:VSN) was up 5.97% or 0.54 points to 9.59 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC), which lost 6.96% or 1.10 points to trade at 14.71 in late trade. Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp (TO:LIF) declined 5.43% or 0.67 points to end at 11.67 and Canadian Energy Services & Technology Corp (TO:CEU) shed 4.88% or 0.16 points to 3.12.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 443 to 377 and 90 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 down 1.71% to 16.08.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.24% or 3.00 to $1274.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.79% or 0.37 to hit $46.33 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.48% or 0.23 to trade at $47.85 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.68% to 0.7731, while CAD/EUR fell 0.07% to 0.6838.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.53% at 94.61.