Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Real Estate and REITs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS), which rose 10.71% or 8.05 points to trade at 83.23 at the close. Kinaxis Inc (TO:KXS) added 3.67% or 3.46 points to end at 97.82 and Interfor Corp (TO:IFP) was up 3.48% or 0.66 points to 19.63 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CES Energy Solutions Corp (TO:CEU), which lost 7.32% or 0.330 points to trade at 4.180 in late trade. NexGen Energy Ltd. (TO:NXE) declined 5.54% or 0.150 points to end at 2.560 and Kinross Gold Corporation (TO:K) shed 5.18% or 0.20 points to 3.66.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 540 to 534 and 140 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 4.28% to 12.74.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.51% or 6.20 to $1198.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.35% or 0.25 to hit $72.03 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.12% or 0.10 to trade at $81.16 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.51% to 0.7681, while CAD/EUR fell 0.27% to 0.6542.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 93.87.