Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Energy and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (TO:GC), which rose 17.97% or 4.57 points to trade at 30.00 at the close. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc . (TO:RBA) added 7.97% or 2.770 points to end at 37.540 and Brookfield Business Partners LP (TO:BBU_u) was up 7.76% or 2.74 points to 38.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG), which lost 8.67% or 0.98 points to trade at 10.32 in late trade. Dorel Industries Inc (TO:DIIb) declined 6.13% or 2.05 points to end at 31.41 and Open Text Corp (TO:OTEX) shed 4.75% or 2.07 points to 41.55.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 603 to 505 and 136 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 up 5.21% to 12.52.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.10% or 1.28 to $1265.98 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.34% or 0.17 to hit $49.22 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.48% or 0.25 to trade at $52.12 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.08% to 0.7893, while CAD/EUR rose 0.48% to 0.6718.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 93.52.