Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 1.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Silver Standard Resources Inc . (TO:SSO), which rose 5.08% or 0.73 points to trade at 15.09 at the close. Innergex Renewable Energy Inc . (TO:INE) added 2.74% or 0.38 points to end at 14.24 and Kinross Gold Corporation (TO:K) was up 2.67% or 0.13 points to 4.99 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eldorado Gold Corporation (TO:ELD), which lost 10.97% or 0.52 points to trade at 4.22 in late trade. Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) declined 7.95% or 2.330 points to end at 26.960 and Canadian Energy Services & Technology Corp (TO:CEU) shed 7.90% or 0.660 points to 7.690.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 802 to 384 and 112 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 10.43% to 13.23.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.53% or 6.60 to $1258.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.75% or 0.41 to hit $54.04 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.97% or 0.55 to trade at $56.03 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.08% to 0.7630, while CAD/EUR rose 0.19% to 0.7226.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 101.14.