Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the IT, Clean Technology and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Real Matters Inc (TSX:REAL), which rose 22.66% or 3.72 points to trade at 20.14 at the close. Norbord Inc (TSX:OSB) added 8.42% or 1.84 points to end at 23.69 and Shopify Inc (TSX:SHOP) was up 6.94% or 67.17 points to 1034.42 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Torex Gold Resources Inc (TSX:TXG), which lost 6.08% or 1.24 points to trade at 19.15 in late trade. Frontera Energy Corp (TSX:FEC) declined 5.56% or 0.24 points to end at 4.08 and Barrick Gold Corporation (TSX:ABX) shed 5.35% or 2.12 points to 37.54.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 602 to 417 and 117 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 unchanged 0% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.32% or 22.65 to $1687.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.63% or 0.40 to hit $24.16 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 3.52% or 1.09 to trade at $29.88 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.63% to 0.7074, while CAD/EUR fell 0.21% to 0.6554.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 100.222.