Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Energy and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were IAMGold Corporation (TSX:IMG), which rose 7.13% or 0.310 points to trade at 4.660 at the close. Birchcliff Energy Ltd . (TSX:BIR) added 6.25% or 0.13 points to end at 2.21 and Torex Gold Resources Inc (TSX:TXG) was up 5.23% or 0.990 points to 19.930 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Precision Drilling Corporation (TSX:PD), which lost 5.85% or 0.10 points to trade at 1.61 in late trade. Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TSX:TRQ) declined 5.00% or 0.030 points to end at 0.570 and BRP Inc (TSX:DOO) shed 4.99% or 2.07 points to 39.45.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 648 to 431 and 102 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 5.60% to 13.58.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.38% or 5.80 to $1517.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $56.13 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $60.09 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.02% to 0.7508, while CAD/EUR rose 0.01% to 0.6764.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 98.032.