Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Energy and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.49%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TO:TRQ), which rose 3.77% or 0.140 points to trade at 3.850 at the close. NFI Group Inc (TO:NFI) added 3.13% or 1.52 points to end at 50.05 and Linamar Corporation (TO:LNR) was up 2.75% or 1.54 points to 57.62 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Guyana Goldfields Inc . (TO:GUY), which lost 21.78% or 1.050 points to trade at 3.770 in late trade. Aphria Inc (TO:APH) declined 7.23% or 0.850 points to end at 10.900 and Aurora Cannabis Inc (TO:ACB) shed 6.50% or 0.560 points to 8.060.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 630 to 461 and 117 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 4.53% to 14.07.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.02% or 0.20 to $1241.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 4.13% or 2.89 to hit $67.06 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 4.46% or 3.36 to trade at $71.97 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.16% to 0.7613, while CAD/EUR fell 0.11% to 0.6498.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 94.25.