Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the IT, Industrials and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were BRP Inc (TO:DOO), which rose 6.55% or 2.37 points to trade at 38.54 at the close. CCL Industries Inc (TO:CCLb) added 4.26% or 2.24 points to end at 54.88 and West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd . (TO:WFT) was up 3.98% or 2.52 points to 65.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CannTrust Holdings Inc (TO:TRST), which lost 18.96% or 2.5500 points to trade at 10.9000 in late trade. Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC) declined 7.30% or 0.98 points to end at 12.44 and Alacer Gold Corp (TO:ASR) shed 6.22% or 0.250 points to 3.770.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 615 to 473 and 91 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 3.45% to 12.58.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.62% or 21.35 to $1295.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $59.41 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.07% or 0.05 to trade at $67.19 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.22% to 0.7440, while CAD/EUR fell 0.03% to 0.6628.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.52% at 96.787.