Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aecon Group Inc . (TO:ARE), which rose 20.22% or 2.90 points to trade at 17.24 at the close. Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC) added 14.16% or 1.42 points to end at 11.45 and ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI) was up 6.90% or 0.080 points to 1.240 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tahoe Resources Inc (TO:THO), which lost 18.66% or 1.28 points to trade at 5.58 in late trade. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) declined 4.45% or 0.82 points to end at 17.62 and Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN) shed 4.03% or 0.37 points to 8.82.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 611 to 418 and 174 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 2.89% to 12.44.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.34% or 4.37 to $1296.37 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.78% or 0.37 to hit $47.80 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.63% or 0.33 to trade at $52.37 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.33% to 0.8012, while CAD/EUR fell 0.71% to 0.6720.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.82% at 92.47.