Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Energy and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Rogers Communications Inc (TSX:RCIb), which rose 3.27% or 1.84 points to trade at 58.15 at the close. H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:HR_u) added 2.92% or 0.48 points to end at 16.94 and OceanaGold Corporation (TSX:OGC) was up 2.14% or 0.050 points to 2.390 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Denison Mines Corp (TSX:DML), which lost 7.30% or 0.17 points to trade at 2.16 in late trade. Ero Copper Corp (TSX:ERO) declined 6.20% or 1.53 points to end at 23.13 and NexGen Energy Ltd. (TSX:NXE) shed 5.75% or 0.430 points to 7.050.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 678 to 358 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 unchanged 0% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.18% or 3.25 to $1796.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.87% or 2.43 to hit $82.22 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 2.42% or 2.07 to trade at $83.58 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.26% to 0.8090, while CAD/EUR rose 0.22% to 0.6974.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 93.875.