Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Clean Technology and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were AltaGas Ltd (TO:ALA), which rose 5.87% or 1.24 points to trade at 22.35 at the close. Gibson Energy Inc . (TO:GEI) added 5.12% or 1.01 points to end at 20.75 and Uni-Select Inc. (TO:UNS) was up 4.97% or 1.05 points to 22.18 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Trican Well Service Ltd . (TO:TCW), which lost 6.17% or 0.150 points to trade at 2.280 in late trade. Alacer Gold Corp (TO:ASR) declined 4.65% or 0.100 points to end at 2.050 and Sandstorm Gold Ltd . (TO:SSL) shed 4.24% or 0.210 points to 4.740.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 582 to 518 and 136 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 1.01% to 12.78.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.65% or 7.90 to $1203.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.77% or 0.54 to hit $70.86 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.06% or 0.05 to trade at $78.75 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.13% to 0.7740, while CAD/EUR rose 0.06% to 0.6585.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 93.78.