Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, IT and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 1.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. (TSX:AAV), which rose 3.29% or 0.38 points to trade at 11.93 at the close. Toronto Dominion Bank (TSX:TD) added 0.94% or 0.81 points to end at 86.87 and Brookfield Business Partners LP (TSX:BBU_u) was up 0.89% or 0.26 points to 29.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Open Text Corp (TSX:OTEX), which lost 13.71% or 6.60 points to trade at 41.54 in late trade. Dye & Durham Ltd (TSX:DND) declined 11.68% or 1.99 points to end at 15.05 and Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSX:ACB) shed 8.22% or 0.18 points to 2.01.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 749 to 250 and 94 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 2.54% to 19.75.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 1.23% or 21.70 to $1,749.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.37% or 0.34 to hit $92.86 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.36% or 1.35 to trade at $100.69 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.87% to 0.77, while CAD/EUR fell 0.80% to 0.77.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 108.75.