Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Kinaxis Inc (TSX:KXS), which rose 7.00% or 9.92 points to trade at 151.56 at the close. Cascades Inc . (TSX:CAS) added 5.77% or 0.79 points to end at 14.48 and Lightspeed POS Inc (TSX:LSPD) was up 4.96% or 4.35 points to 92.09 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NexGen Energy Ltd. (TSX:NXE), which lost 9.29% or 0.550 points to trade at 5.370 in late trade. Cameco Corp (TSX:CCO) declined 9.22% or 2.40 points to end at 23.62 and Lithium Americas Corp (TSX:LAC) shed 7.81% or 1.42 points to 16.77.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 609 to 428 and 102 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 August delivery was down 0.67% or 12.65 to $1866.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.06% or 0.04 to hit $70.95 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.30% or 0.22 to trade at $72.91 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.08% to 0.8236, while CAD/EUR rose 0.06% to 0.6797.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 90.483.