Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the IT, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Boyd Group Income Fund (TO:BYD_u), which rose 9.84% or 8.83 points to trade at 98.56 at the close. Bombardier Inc (TO:BBDb) added 3.56% or 0.080 points to end at 2.330 and Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc (TO:ZZZ) was up 2.13% or 0.85 points to 40.67 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Asanko Gold Inc (TO:AKG), which lost 2.93% or 0.080 points to trade at 2.650 in late trade. Eldorado Gold Corporation (TO:ELD) declined 2.67% or 0.12 points to end at 4.38 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) shed 2.38% or 0.190 points to 7.810.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 613 to 482 and 118 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 14.90% to 10.68 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.12% or 1.50 to $1266.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.38% or 0.19 to hit $49.99 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.07 to trade at $52.58 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.09% to 0.7433, while CAD/EUR rose 0.09% to 0.6654.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 97.33.