Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the REITs, Real Estate and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canadian REIT (TO:REF_u), which rose 15.96% or 6.95 points to trade at 50.49 at the close. Bombardier Inc (TO:BBDb) added 11.25% or 0.370 points to end at 3.660 and Canadian Tire Corp Ltd (TO:CTCa) was up 6.55% or 10.73 points to 174.48 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kinross Gold Corporation (TO:K), which lost 7.28% or 0.39 points to trade at 4.97 in late trade. Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN) declined 6.44% or 0.32 points to end at 4.65 and Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG) shed 6.00% or 1.04 points to 16.30.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 609 to 521 and 130 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 0.00% to 21.65 a new 52-week high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.18% or 2.40 to $1355.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.30% or 0.79 to hit $61.39 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.17% or 0.11 to trade at $64.47 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.05% to 0.8008, while CAD/EUR fell 0.33% to 0.6408.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.44% at 88.52.