Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.71%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Enercare Inc (TO:ECI), which rose 4.03% or 0.78 points to trade at 20.12 at the close. Air Canada (TO:AC) added 2.13% or 0.480 points to end at 23.020 and Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (TO:GC) was up 2.02% or 0.59 points to 29.81 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD), which lost 8.27% or 0.32 points to trade at 3.55 in late trade. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) declined 8.09% or 0.390 points to end at 4.430 and MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG) shed 7.19% or 0.45 points to 5.81.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 695 to 442 and 118 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 13.95.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.15% or 1.94 to $1280.84 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.55% or 1.45 to hit $55.31 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 2.23% or 1.41 to trade at $61.75 a barrel.
CAD/USD was unchanged 0.00% to 0.7854, while CAD/EUR fell 1.07% to 0.6660.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.70% at 93.74.