Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and Clean Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Intertape Polymer Group Inc . (TO:ITP), which rose 14.29% or 2.50 points to trade at 20.00 at the close. Nevsun Resources Ltd . (TO:NSU) added 4.33% or 0.130 points to end at 3.130 and Crombie REIT (TO:CRR_u) was up 4.31% or 0.58 points to 14.03 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Klondex Mines Ltd (TO:KDX), which lost 8.23% or 0.260 points to trade at 2.900 in late trade. Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) declined 8.02% or 1.16 points to end at 13.30 and Badger Daylighting Ltd . (TO:BAD) shed 7.38% or 2.23 points to 28.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 579 to 530 and 135 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 1.56% to 13.21 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.29% or 3.71 to $1277.91 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $56.73 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.61% or 0.39 to trade at $63.13 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.33% to 0.7857, while CAD/EUR fell 0.36% to 0.6734.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 94.39.