Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Materials and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were BlackBerry Ltd (TSX:BB), which rose 5.15% or 0.77 points to trade at 15.71 at the close. Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP (TSX:BEP_u) added 4.53% or 2.08 points to end at 48.01 and Ballard Power Systems Inc (TSX:BLDP) was up 3.73% or 0.83 points to 23.08 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sandstorm Gold Ltd . (TSX:SSL), which lost 8.73% or 0.87 points to trade at 9.09 in late trade. Trillium Therapeutics Inc (TSX:TRIL) declined 6.20% or 0.81 points to end at 12.25 and Enerplus Corporation (TSX:ERF) shed 6.07% or 0.56 points to 8.66.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 609 to 412 and 97 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 unchanged 0% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.09% or 1.55 to $1779.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.53% or 1.13 to hit $72.92 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.64% or 1.24 to trade at $74.14 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.40% to 0.8101, while CAD/EUR fell 0.28% to 0.6794.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 91.885.