Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Healthcare and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX:WDO), which rose 8.36% or 0.73 points to trade at 9.46 at the close. Bombardier Inc (TSX:BBDb) added 7.05% or 0.110 points to end at 1.670 and TFI International Inc (TSX:TFII) was up 5.47% or 2.49 points to 48.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TSX:GOOS), which lost 3.99% or 1.71 points to trade at 41.15 in late trade. Bausch Health Companies Inc (TSX:BHC) declined 3.86% or 1.46 points to end at 36.37 and iA Financial (TSX:IAG) shed 3.83% or 2.86 points to 71.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 536 to 472 and 142 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 0.47% or 7.40 to $1579.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.90% or 0.46 to hit $51.63 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.38% or 0.77 to trade at $56.56 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.10% to 0.7540, while CAD/EUR rose 0.27% to 0.6958.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 98.998.