Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Energy, Industrials and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.83%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TSX:TRQ), which rose 12.52% or 2.33 points to trade at 20.94 at the close. NovaGold Resources Inc (TSX:NG) added 3.30% or 0.29 points to end at 9.07 and Silvercorp Metals Inc (TSX:SVM) was up 2.64% or 0.12 points to 4.66 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lithium Americas Corp (TSX:LAC), which lost 7.14% or 3.05 points to trade at 39.67 in late trade. Enerplus Corporation (TSX:ERF) declined 4.83% or 0.66 points to end at 13.00 and Capstone Mining Corp (TSX:CS) shed 4.59% or 0.26 points to 5.40.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 731 to 287 and 110 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 3.19% to 14.90.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.17% or 2.95 to $1787.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.75% or 0.54 to hit $71.13 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.93% or 0.70 to trade at $74.45 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.53% to 0.7818, while CAD/EUR fell 0.31% to 0.6923.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 96.260.