Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 1.35% to hit a new 52-week low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Stars Group Inc (TO:TSGI), which rose 7.25% or 1.51 points to trade at 22.34 at the close. Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG) added 7.13% or 1.00 points to end at 15.02 and OceanaGold Corporation (TO:OGC) was up 4.27% or 0.180 points to 4.400 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS), which lost 8.22% or 5.11 points to trade at 57.04 in late trade. BlackBerry Ltd (TO:BB) declined 8.02% or 0.82 points to end at 9.40 and Aphria Inc (TO:APHA) shed 6.39% or 0.450 points to 6.590.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 796 to 353 and 95 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 0.64% to 22.09 a new 52-week high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.73% or 9.30 to $1258.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.07% or 0.49 to hit $45.39 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.56% or 0.85 to trade at $53.50 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.65% to 0.7354, while CAD/EUR rose 0.11% to 0.6473.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.84% at 96.532.