Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the IT, Energy and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Guyana Goldfields Inc . (TO:GUY), which rose 6.70% or 0.290 points to trade at 4.620 at the close. Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) added 4.03% or 0.460 points to end at 11.870 and Cameco Corp (TO:CCO) was up 3.85% or 0.42 points to 11.46 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP), which lost 11.50% or 16.750 points to trade at 128.950 in late trade. Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) declined 3.85% or 0.14 points to end at 3.50 and Secure Energy Services Inc . (TO:SES) shed 3.78% or 0.33 points to 8.41.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 647 to 452 and 157 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 up 1.28% to 11.07 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.02% or 0.25 to $1277.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.07% or 0.54 to hit $49.88 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.46% or 0.26 to trade at $55.74 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.15% to 0.8015, while CAD/EUR fell 0.07% to 0.6813.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 93.28.