Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Real Estate and REITs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were MEG Energy Corp (TSX:MEG), which rose 6.15% or 0.30 points to trade at 5.18 at the close. Cronos Group Inc (TSX:CRON) added 5.52% or 0.6000 points to end at 11.4600 and Aphria Inc (TSX:APHA) was up 5.07% or 0.320 points to 6.630 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FirstService Corp (TSX:FSV), which lost 8.95% or 12.32 points to trade at 125.31 in late trade. Rogers Communications Inc (TSX:RCIb) declined 8.12% or 5.39 points to end at 61.00 and Altus Group Limited (TSX:AIF) shed 5.28% or 2.000 points to 35.890.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 536 to 518 and 125 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 0.17% to 12.04.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.50% or 7.50 to $1495.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.59% or 1.41 to hit $55.89 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.15% or 0.09 to trade at $61.12 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.01% to 0.7652, while CAD/EUR rose 0.01% to 0.6874.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 97.222.