Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Clean Technology, Energy and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (TSX:CP), which rose 3.75% or 3.38 points to trade at 93.66 at the close. George Weston Limited (TSX:WN) added 2.70% or 3.80 points to end at 144.74 and Emera Incorporated (TSX:EMA) was up 2.04% or 1.22 points to 61.14 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nuvei Corp (TSX:NVEI), which lost 8.04% or 6.00 points to trade at 68.64 in late trade. Crescent Point Energy Corp . (TSX:CPG) declined 5.92% or 0.38 points to end at 6.04 and Ballard Power Systems Inc (TSX:BLDP) shed 5.13% or 0.86 points to 15.91.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 706 to 333 and 121 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 12.38% to 12.95.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.95% or 16.95 to $1771.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.22% or 0.87 to hit $70.42 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.98 to trade at $73.41 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.42% to 0.7775, while CAD/EUR fell 0.16% to 0.6907.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 96.535.