Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and REITs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (TSX:GC), which rose 17.19% or 6.40 points to trade at 43.64 at the close. SilverCrest Metals Inc (TSX:SIL) added 6.59% or 0.81 points to end at 13.10 and Kinaxis Inc (TSX:KXS) was up 6.02% or 10.24 points to 180.23 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Vermilion Energy Inc . (TSX:VET), which lost 7.63% or 0.47 points to trade at 5.69 in late trade. Aphria Inc (TSX:APHA) declined 6.08% or 0.595 points to end at 9.195 and MEG Energy Corp (TSX:MEG) shed 5.87% or 0.27 points to 4.33.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 745 to 335 and 102 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 February delivery was down 0.31% or 5.95 to $1882.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 2.56% or 1.26 to hit $47.98 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 2.49% or 1.30 to trade at $50.96 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.31% to 0.7799, while CAD/EUR fell 0.20% to 0.6369.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 89.945.