Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Consumer Discretionary and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 2.22% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Northland Power Inc . (TSX:NPI), which rose 0.61% or 0.20 points to trade at 32.78 at the close. Thomson Reuters Corp (TSX:TRI) added 0.56% or 0.60 points to end at 107.20 and Transcontinental Inc (TSX:TCLa) was up 0.48% or 0.08 points to 16.68 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Secure Energy Services Inc . (TSX:SES), which lost 17.49% or 0.78 points to trade at 3.68 in late trade. Equitable Group Inc. (TSX:EQB) declined 7.65% or 8.03 points to end at 97.00 and Interfor Corp (TSX:IFP) shed 6.83% or 1.00 points to 13.64.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 999 to 117 and 83 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 April delivery was down 2.35% or 39.45 to $1637.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 3.15% or 1.62 to hit $49.81 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 3.01% or 1.68 to trade at $54.09 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.07% to 0.7527, while CAD/EUR fell 0.18% to 0.6915.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 98.903.