Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Transcontinental Inc (TSX:TCLa), which rose 7.76% or 1.74 points to trade at 24.15 at the close. Tilray Inc (TSX:TLRY) added 7.10% or 1.74 points to end at 26.24 and Interfor Corp (TSX:IFP) was up 6.32% or 1.75 points to 29.46 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Denison Mines Corp (TSX:DML), which lost 3.85% or 0.07 points to trade at 1.62 in late trade. Lithium Americas Corp (TSX:LAC) declined 3.59% or 0.70 points to end at 18.81 and NovaGold Resources Inc (TSX:NG) shed 3.10% or 0.37 points to 11.58.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 539 to 502 and 119 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 unchanged 0% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.12% or 2.25 to $1892.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.43% or 0.30 to hit $69.75 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.26% or 0.19 to trade at $72.03 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.00% to 0.8256, while CAD/EUR fell 0.01% to 0.6780.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 90.142.