Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financials, Real Estate and REITs sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.38% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Interfor Corp (TO:IFP), which rose 5.68% or 0.84 points to trade at 15.64 at the close. Endeavour Mining Corp (TO:EDV) added 5.41% or 1.160 points to end at 22.600 and Western Forest Products Inc (TO:WEF) was up 4.76% or 0.090 points to 1.980 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI), which lost 8.17% or 0.170 points to trade at 1.910 in late trade. Alacer Gold Corp (TO:ASR) declined 5.65% or 0.130 points to end at 2.170 and Teck Resources Ltd B (TO:TECKb) shed 4.97% or 1.65 points to 31.55.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 614 to 592 and 124 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 0.31% to 9.66 a new 3-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.43% or 5.05 to $1172.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 2.15% or 1.07 to hit $50.84 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 1.70% or 0.90 to trade at $53.90 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.33% to 0.7581, while CAD/EUR rose 1.67% to 0.7142.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.83% at 101.11.