Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Industrials, Mining and Clean Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.66%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Colliers International Group (TO:CIG), which rose 10.35% or 5.71 points to trade at 60.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Restaurant Brands Intl (TO:QSR) added 5.32% or 2.67 points to end at 52.84 and Torex Gold Resources Inc . (TO:TXG) was up 4.13% or 0.050 points to 1.260 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Boyd Group Income Fund (TO:BYD_u), which fell 8.54% or 5.69 points to trade at 60.96 at the close. Teck Resources Ltd (TO:TCKb) declined 7.15% or 0.62 points to end at 8.05 and TransForce Inc . (TO:TFI) was down 7.01% or 1.89 points to 25.07.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 838 to 520 and 204 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 9.14% to 19.46.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.07% or 0.80 to $1167.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.76% or 0.78 to hit $43.20 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.48% or 0.70 to trade at $46.84 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.85% to 0.7538, while CAD/EUR fell 0.68% to 0.6827.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 97.02.