Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and REITs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TSX:TRQ), which rose 7.34% or 1.30 points to trade at 19.01 at the close. Capstone Mining Corp (TSX:CS) added 5.70% or 0.32 points to end at 5.84 and Teck Resources Ltd B (TSX:TECKb) was up 4.93% or 1.63 points to 34.67 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Docebo Inc (TSX:DCBO), which lost 7.45% or 7.26 points to trade at 90.13 in late trade. Shopify Inc (TSX:SHOP) declined 4.52% or 96.64 points to end at 2043.18 and WELL Health Technologies Corp (TSX:WELL) shed 4.31% or 0.270 points to 6.000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 632 to 379 and 110 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 5.39% to 11.75.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 2.55% or 47.20 to $1804.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.00% or 0.76 to hit $76.70 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 1.01% or 0.80 to trade at $79.69 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.47% to 0.7878, while CAD/EUR fell 0.02% to 0.7010.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.50% at 96.505.