Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Materials, Consumer Discretionary and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were CannTrust Holdings Inc (TSX:TRST), which rose 40.80% or 1.2200 points to trade at 4.2100 at the close. Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc (TSX:ZZZ) added 12.30% or 2.19 points to end at 19.99 and ShawCor Ltd . (TSX:SCL) was up 9.81% or 1.64 points to 18.36 in late trade.
Biggest losers included CCL Industries Inc (TSX:CCLb), which lost 8.89% or 5.86 points to trade at 60.09 in late trade. Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) declined 8.10% or 3.34 points to end at 37.92 and Russel Metals Inc . (TSX:RUS) shed 7.90% or 1.61 points to 18.78.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 659 to 396 and 112 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 2.39% to 12.83.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.08% or 1.15 to $1508.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 3.20% or 1.68 to hit $54.22 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.59% or 0.91 to trade at $58.29 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.02% to 0.7561, while CAD/EUR fell 0.17% to 0.6750.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 97.375.