Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Materials, Healthcare and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 1.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were MTY Food Group Inc (TSX:MTY), which rose 6.30% or 3.43 points to trade at 57.89 at the close. Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TSX:TRQ) added 4.48% or 1.81 points to end at 42.17 and Secure Energy Services Inc . (TSX:SES) was up 3.70% or 0.27 points to 7.56 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ero Copper Corp (TSX:ERO), which lost 17.79% or 2.94 points to trade at 13.59 in late trade. Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TSX:GOOS) declined 9.08% or 2.03 points to end at 20.32 and Equinox Gold Corp (TSX:EQX) shed 9.07% or 0.40 points to 4.01.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 735 to 251 and 110 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 3.93% to 24.06.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.68% or 11.15 to $1,638.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.95% or 0.84 to hit $89.21 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.92% or 0.87 to trade at $95.52 a barrel.
CAD/USD was unchanged 0.53% to 0.73, while CAD/EUR unchanged 0.03% to 0.74.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.50% at 111.92.