Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Clean Technology and REITs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Crescent Point Energy Corp . (TSX:CPG), which rose 12.20% or 0.51 points to trade at 4.69 at the close. Superior Plus Corp (TSX:SPB) added 5.80% or 0.76 points to end at 13.86 and HudBay Minerals Inc (TSX:HBM) was up 4.44% or 0.40 points to 9.41 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Canopy Growth Corp (TSX:WEED), which lost 7.15% or 3.690 points to trade at 47.920 in late trade. Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSX:ACB) declined 5.97% or 0.990 points to end at 15.580 and Ballard Power Systems Inc (TSX:BLDP) shed 4.16% or 1.69 points to 38.96.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 636 to 392 and 107 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 April delivery was up 0.06% or 1.10 to $1773.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.03% or 0.63 to hit $60.51 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.71% or 0.46 to trade at $63.88 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.11% to 0.7879, while CAD/EUR fell 0.30% to 0.6518.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.38% at 90.605.