Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Energy, Telecoms and Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.36% to hit a new 3-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG), which rose 5.95% or 0.55 points to trade at 9.79 at the close. Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) added 5.20% or 0.48 points to end at 9.80 and Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC) was up 4.05% or 0.41 points to 10.54 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI), which lost 4.17% or 0.030 points to trade at 0.690 in late trade. Aurora Cannabis Inc (TO:ACB) declined 4.09% or 0.380 points to end at 8.920 and West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd . (TO:WFT) shed 3.77% or 3.62 points to 92.38.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 581 to 495 and 131 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 4.21% to 13.11.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.13% or 1.70 to $1304.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.49% or 0.32 to hit $66.06 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.13% or 0.10 to trade at $76.36 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.44% to 0.7702, while CAD/EUR fell 0.56% to 0.6536.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 93.56.