Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Healthcare, IT and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG), which rose 24.01% or 3.38 points to trade at 17.46 at the close. MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (TO:MAXR) added 12.94% or 2.71 points to end at 23.66 and Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) was up 10.63% or 0.34 points to 3.54 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NFI Group Inc (TO:NFI), which lost 13.13% or 5.91 points to trade at 39.09 in late trade. Stars Group Inc (TO:TSGI) declined 9.63% or 2.52 points to end at 23.64 and IAMGold Corporation (TO:IMG) shed 8.19% or 0.390 points to 4.370.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 700 to 387 and 133 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 6.40% to 17.12.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.28% or 3.40 to $1227.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.95% or 0.59 to hit $61.62 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.10% or 0.07 to trade at $72.06 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.09% to 0.7626, while CAD/EUR unchanged 0.00% to 0.6668.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 95.94.