Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Energy, Materials and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 1.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM), which rose 8.52% or 1.42 points to trade at 18.09 at the close. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) added 6.67% or 0.170 points to end at 2.720 and HudBay Minerals Inc (TO:HBM) was up 5.92% or 0.51 points to 9.12 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI), which lost 29.03% or 0.360 points to trade at 0.880 in late trade. BlackBerry Ltd (TO:BB) declined 5.84% or 0.92 points to end at 14.84 and Aphria Inc (TO:APH) shed 3.69% or 0.440 points to 11.500.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 783 to 332 and 120 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 1.54% to 14.03.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.06% or 0.80 to $1325.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.84% or 0.54 to hit $64.92 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.90% or 0.62 to trade at $69.38 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.27% to 0.7759, while CAD/EUR rose 0.33% to 0.6307.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 89.75.