Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Staples, Financials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN), which rose 14.75% or 0.87 points to trade at 6.77 at the close. Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) added 8.06% or 0.92 points to end at 12.34 and Boardwalk REIT (TO:BEI_u) was up 4.55% or 2.18 points to 50.06 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aurora Cannabis Inc (TO:ACB), which lost 9.80% or 0.580 points to trade at 5.340 in late trade. Aphria Inc (TO:APH) declined 9.54% or 0.920 points to end at 8.720 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) shed 8.25% or 2.890 points to 32.150.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 538 to 533 and 129 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 unchanged 0.00% to 12.81.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.23% or 2.70 to $1201.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.04% or 0.03 to hit $67.17 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.06% or 0.04 to trade at $72.57 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.49% to 0.7652, while CAD/EUR rose 1.06% to 0.6744.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 96.56.