Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Energy, IT and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.38% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aphria Inc (TO:APH), which rose 15.69% or 2.900 points to trade at 21.380 at the close. GENIVAR Inc . (TO:WSP) added 7.30% or 4.99 points to end at 73.34 and Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc (TO:ATDb) was up 4.53% or 2.86 points to 66.01 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG), which lost 10.23% or 1.04 points to trade at 9.13 in late trade. Crescent Point Energy Corp . (TO:CPG) declined 7.62% or 0.58 points to end at 7.03 and Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. (TO:AAV) shed 5.49% or 0.190 points to 3.270.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 649 to 427 and 134 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 1.38% to 14.73 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.36% or 4.30 to $1205.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.14% or 0.78 to hit $67.94 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.71% or 0.55 to trade at $76.72 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.28% to 0.7610, while CAD/EUR rose 0.32% to 0.6545.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 94.97.