Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Lightspeed POS Inc (TSX:LSPD), which rose 3.23% or 3.09 points to trade at 98.82 at the close. Interfor Corp (TSX:IFP) added 3.15% or 0.91 points to end at 29.78 and AcuityAds Holdings Inc (TSX:AT) was up 3.08% or 0.360 points to 12.060 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Westshore Terminals Investment Corp (TSX:WTE), which lost 6.98% or 1.29 points to trade at 17.20 in late trade. BlackBerry Ltd (TSX:BB) declined 4.46% or 0.74 points to end at 15.87 and OrganiGram Holdings Inc (TSX:OGI) shed 3.99% or 0.15 points to 3.61.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 662 to 358 and 116 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 August delivery was down 0.15% or 2.60 to $1772.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.96% or 0.68 to hit $71.72 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.57% or 0.42 to trade at $73.50 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.46% to 0.8050, while CAD/EUR fell 0.17% to 0.6778.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 92.195.