Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Consumer Staples and Utilities sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.54% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Open Text Corp (TO:OTEX), which rose 12.73% or 5.36 points to trade at 47.48 at the close. Klondex Mines Ltd (TO:KDX) added 3.70% or 0.100 points to end at 2.800 and ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI) was up 3.45% or 0.060 points to 1.800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aphria Inc (TO:APH), which lost 12.39% or 2.190 points to trade at 15.480 in late trade. Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) declined 11.19% or 3.470 points to end at 27.550 and Stella-Jones Inc. (TO:SJ) shed 8.17% or 4.23 points to 47.56.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 685 to 452 and 122 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 1.46% to 13.20.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.77% or 10.30 to $1353.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 2.01% or 1.30 to hit $66.03 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.26% or 0.87 to trade at $69.76 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.39% to 0.8152, while CAD/EUR fell 0.43% to 0.6514.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.58% at 88.43.