Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Energy, Materials and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Dollarama Inc (TO:DOL), which rose 3.55% or 4.78 points to trade at 139.50 at the close. Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) added 2.19% or 0.23 points to end at 10.74 and Transcontinental Inc (TO:TCLa) was up 2.08% or 0.54 points to 26.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM), which lost 10.23% or 1.10 points to trade at 9.65 in late trade. Crew Energy Inc (TO:CR) declined 7.57% or 0.32 points to end at 3.91 and NuVista Energy Ltd . (TO:NVA) shed 5.71% or 0.390 points to 6.440.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 620 to 432 and 168 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 87.03% to 11.82.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.12% or 1.56 to $1351.86 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.14% or 1.54 to hit $47.55 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 1.39% or 0.76 to trade at $53.73 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.23% to 0.8235, while CAD/EUR fell 0.34% to 0.6842.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 91.28.