Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Energy, IT and Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Winpak Ltd. (TO:WPK), which rose 11.53% or 5.21 points to trade at 50.41 at the close. Enerplus Corporation (TO:ERF) added 8.78% or 1.17 points to end at 14.49 and Klondex Mines Ltd (TO:KDX) was up 7.18% or 0.130 points to 1.940 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (TO:MAXR), which lost 13.44% or 10.05 points to trade at 64.71 in late trade. Altus Group Limited (TO:AIF) declined 6.94% or 2.370 points to end at 31.780 and Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) shed 4.70% or 0.550 points to 11.160.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 660 to 426 and 144 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 3.49% to 15.50.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.13% or 1.70 to $1331.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.21% or 0.76 to hit $63.53 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.36% or 0.90 to trade at $67.29 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.48% to 0.7909, while CAD/EUR rose 0.77% to 0.6433.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 89.81.