Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Discretionary, IT and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Magna International Inc (TO:MG), which rose 6.87% or 4.74 points to trade at 73.73 at the close. NovaGold Resources Inc (TO:NG) added 6.42% or 0.33 points to end at 5.47 and Spartan Energy Corp (TO:SPE) was up 6.33% or 0.340 points to 5.710 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN), which lost 24.41% or 1.25 points to trade at 3.87 in late trade. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) declined 13.07% or 0.430 points to end at 2.860 and Klondex Mines Ltd (TO:KDX) shed 11.17% or 0.220 points to 1.750.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 555 to 549 and 120 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 1.14% to 12.12 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.74% or 9.80 to $1315.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.38% or 0.23 to hit $61.19 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.26% or 0.17 to trade at $65.06 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.79% to 0.7659, while CAD/EUR fell 0.22% to 0.6226.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 90.16.