Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Clean Technology and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Sierra Wireless Inc . (TO:SW), which rose 10.84% or 2.88 points to trade at 29.46 at the close. Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd (TO:KL) added 6.46% or 1.140 points to end at 18.800 and Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC) was up 5.40% or 0.72 points to 14.06 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD), which lost 7.27% or 0.25 points to trade at 3.19 in late trade. Cameco Corp (TO:CCO) declined 7.19% or 0.91 points to end at 11.74 and MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG) shed 6.70% or 0.38 points to 5.29.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 652 to 474 and 131 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 down 16.98% to 7.48 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.49% or 6.27 to $1293.57 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.80% or 1.06 to hit $57.89 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.49% or 0.31 to trade at $63.78 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.39% to 0.7835, while CAD/EUR fell 0.14% to 0.6584.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 92.84.