Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Materials and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.75% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aphria Inc (TO:APH), which rose 6.50% or 1.060 points to trade at 17.370 at the close. HudBay Minerals Inc (TO:HBM) added 4.53% or 0.27 points to end at 6.23 and Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. (TO:AAV) was up 4.14% or 0.140 points to 3.520 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG), which lost 11.08% or 1.17 points to trade at 9.39 in late trade. Cascades Inc . (TO:CAS) declined 9.31% or 1.15 points to end at 11.20 and Interfor Corp (TO:IFP) shed 7.51% or 1.39 points to 17.13.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 756 to 367 and 125 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 3.21% to 14.49.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.38% or 4.50 to $1193.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.66% or 0.49 to hit $74.78 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 1.14% or 0.96 to trade at $84.87 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.10% to 0.7724, while CAD/EUR rose 0.04% to 0.6718.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 95.34.