Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Materials and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP), which rose 4.60% or 6.780 points to trade at 154.300 at the close. Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG) added 4.11% or 0.73 points to end at 18.51 and Spin Master Corp (TO:TOY) was up 3.67% or 1.91 points to 53.91 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Novagold Resources Inc . (TO:NG), which lost 10.78% or 0.58 points to trade at 4.80 in late trade. Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) declined 9.91% or 1.02 points to end at 9.27 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) shed 9.15% or 3.190 points to 31.680.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 601 to 525 and 139 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 1.48% to 13.01 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.70% or 9.50 to $1346.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.64% or 0.42 to hit $65.19 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.68% or 0.48 to trade at $70.05 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.15% to 0.8087, while CAD/EUR fell 0.29% to 0.6512.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 89.06.