Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Energy, IT and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were HudBay Minerals Inc (TSX:HBM), which rose 11.37% or 0.48 points to trade at 4.70 at the close. ARC Resources Ltd . (TSX:ARX) added 7.64% or 0.49 points to end at 6.90 and MEG Energy Corp (TSX:MEG) was up 7.56% or 0.41 points to 5.83 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dollarama Inc (TSX:DOL), which lost 8.85% or 4.34 points to trade at 44.70 in late trade. OceanaGold Corporation (TSX:OGC) declined 7.20% or 0.190 points to end at 2.450 and Westshore Terminals Investment Corp (TSX:WTE) shed 6.34% or 1.36 points to 20.09.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 619 to 449 and 125 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 19.32% to 11.94.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.27% or 4.05 to $1480.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 3.98% or 2.23 to hit $58.33 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 3.57% or 2.17 to trade at $62.99 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.76% to 0.7578, while CAD/EUR rose 0.83% to 0.6840.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 97.560.