Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Industrials, REITs and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were NuVista Energy Ltd . (TO:NVA), which rose 5.37% or 0.350 points to trade at 6.870 at the close. Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (TO:FFH) added 4.88% or 31.00 points to end at 666.00 and Eldorado Gold Corporation (TO:ELD) was up 4.04% or 0.16 points to 4.12 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI), which lost 4.22% or 0.070 points to trade at 1.590 in late trade. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) declined 3.11% or 0.61 points to end at 19.02 and Le Groupe Jean Coutu PJC Inc (TO:PJCa) shed 2.86% or 0.61 points to 20.75.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 776 to 439 and 118 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 down 4.01% to 10.29.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.11% or 1.20 to $1132.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.41% or 0.75 to hit $52.55 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.48% or 0.82 to trade at $54.53 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.33% to 0.7455, while CAD/EUR fell 0.61% to 0.7157.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.22% at 103.03.