Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.46% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Stars Group Inc (TO:TSGI), which rose 14.80% or 3.49 points to trade at 27.07 at the close. Cascades Inc . (TO:CAS) added 9.84% or 0.80 points to end at 8.93 and ECN Capital Corp (TO:ECN) was up 7.84% or 0.33 points to 4.54 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Magna International Inc (TO:MG), which lost 9.96% or 7.14 points to trade at 64.57 in late trade. Cronos Group Inc (TO:CRON) declined 8.06% or 1.6700 points to end at 19.0500 and NexGen Energy Ltd. (TO:NXE) shed 5.00% or 0.100 points to 1.900.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 583 to 455 and 127 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 5.11% to 15.21 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.27% or 3.45 to $1284.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.85% or 0.53 to hit $61.59 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $70.25 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.06% to 0.7422, while CAD/EUR rose 0.08% to 0.6617.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 97.270.