Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Energy, IT and Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.84% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were TORC Oil & Gas Ltd. (TO:TOG), which rose 7.58% or 0.53 points to trade at 7.52 at the close. HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) added 7.17% or 0.67 points to end at 10.01 and Teck Resources Ltd B (TO:TECKb) was up 6.85% or 2.19 points to 34.18 in late trade.
Biggest losers included New Gold Inc . (TO:NGD), which lost 5.42% or 0.310 points to trade at 5.410 in late trade. Guyana Goldfields Inc . (TO:GUY) declined 3.53% or 0.220 points to end at 6.010 and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) shed 3.50% or 0.65 points to 17.91.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 796 to 384 and 126 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 10.14% to 11.52.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.52% or 6.35 to $1209.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.61% or 0.32 to hit $53.07 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.08 to trade at $55.31 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.58% to 0.7598, while CAD/EUR rose 0.90% to 0.7080.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.31% at 100.26.