Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Materials, Telecoms and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Pason Systems Inc . (TO:PSI), which rose 4.44% or 0.77 points to trade at 18.13 at the close. Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) added 3.82% or 0.40 points to end at 10.87 and Extendicare Inc (TO:EXE) was up 2.74% or 0.25 points to 9.38 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI), which lost 6.40% or 0.080 points to trade at 1.170 in late trade. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) declined 5.86% or 0.260 points to end at 4.180 and Interfor Corp (TO:IFP) shed 4.59% or 0.84 points to 17.47.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 608 to 432 and 158 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 5.44% to 13.96.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.81% or 10.45 to $1293.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.53% or 0.25 to hit $47.03 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.27% or 0.64 to trade at $50.91 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.44% to 0.7890, while CAD/EUR fell 0.06% to 0.6731.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 93.63.