Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, IT and Clean Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were NexGen Energy Ltd. (TSX:NXE), which rose 7.09% or 0.420 points to trade at 6.340 at the close. Denison Mines Corp (TSX:DML) added 6.38% or 0.12 points to end at 2.00 and Cameco Corp (TSX:CCO) was up 3.00% or 0.90 points to 30.91 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:HR_u), which lost 19.63% or 3.12 points to trade at 12.77 in late trade. Hut 8 Mining Corp (TSX:HUT) declined 12.02% or 1.240 points to end at 9.080 and Docebo Inc (TSX:DCBO) shed 11.73% or 9.47 points to 71.24.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 624 to 426 and 97 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 3.83% to 17.64.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.22% or 3.95 to $1810.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.36% or 0.28 to hit $77.27 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.35% or 0.28 to trade at $80.28 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.37% to 0.7839, while CAD/EUR fell 0.55% to 0.6931.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 96.200.