Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Energy, Materials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED), which rose 5.13% or 1.660 points to trade at 34.000 at the close. ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI) added 5.00% or 0.080 points to end at 1.680 and Brookfield Business Partners LP (TO:BBU_u) was up 4.99% or 2.25 points to 47.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Peyto Exploration&Development Corp (TO:PEY), which lost 7.03% or 1.06 points to trade at 14.02 in late trade. MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG) declined 5.69% or 0.31 points to end at 5.14 and Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. (TO:AAV) shed 5.31% or 0.280 points to 4.990.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 591 to 547 and 133 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 up 0.44% to 11.32.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.02% or 0.30 to $1321.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.69% or 0.43 to hit $61.58 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.51% or 0.35 to trade at $67.72 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.59% to 0.8055, while CAD/EUR rose 0.84% to 0.6692.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 91.72.