Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Discretionary, Financials and Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 11.90%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TSX:FM), which rose 41.87% or 2.11 points to trade at 7.15 at the close. Pembina Pipeline Corp (TSX:PPL) added 36.00% or 7.55 points to end at 28.52 and Chorus Aviation Inc (TSX:CHR) was up 29.86% or 0.63 points to 2.74 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NFI Group Inc (TSX:NFI), which lost 16.71% or 1.92 points to trade at 9.57 in late trade. ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. (TSX:ATA) declined 0.41% or 0.06 points to end at 14.53 and Baytex Energy Corp (TSX:BTE) 0.00% or 0.000 points to 0.320.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 990 to 142 and 46 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 April delivery was up 6.06% or 95.00 to $1662.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 3.17% or 0.74 to hit $24.10 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.15% or 0.31 to trade at $27.34 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.04% to 0.6900, while CAD/EUR fell 0.40% to 0.6404.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 1.07% at 102.140.