Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Consumer Discretionary, IT and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aurora Cannabis Inc (TO:ACB), which rose 4.82% or 0.440 points to trade at 9.570 at the close. Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS) added 4.73% or 4.05 points to end at 89.73 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) was up 4.65% or 1.890 points to 42.540 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSR Mining Inc (TO:SSRM), which lost 7.02% or 0.97 points to trade at 12.85 in late trade. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) declined 5.10% or 0.150 points to end at 2.790 and Lundin Mining Corporation (TO:LUN) shed 3.77% or 0.310 points to 7.920.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 695 to 389 and 138 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 2.63% to 12.50.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.17% or 2.20 to $1277.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.17% or 0.77 to hit $64.92 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.29% or 0.22 to trade at $75.12 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.54% to 0.7533, while CAD/EUR fell 0.31% to 0.6497.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 94.62.