Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, IT and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.85%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Boralex Inc (TO:BLX), which rose 6.31% or 1.05 points to trade at 17.70 at the close. SSR Mining Inc (TO:SSRM) added 3.48% or 0.48 points to end at 14.27 and Quebecor Inc Class B (TO:QBRb) was up 3.11% or 0.86 points to 28.48 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aphria Inc (TO:APHA), which lost 13.63% or 2.360 points to trade at 14.960 in late trade. Kinaxis Inc (TO:KXS) declined 7.69% or 5.69 points to end at 68.34 and Guyana Goldfields Inc . (TO:GUY) shed 7.50% or 0.120 points to 1.480.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 734 to 355 and 95 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 17.56% to 19.75.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.42% or 5.10 to $1201.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.89% or 1.14 to hit $59.05 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.24% or 0.87 to trade at $69.31 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.22% to 0.7553, while CAD/EUR rose 0.75% to 0.6729.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.76% at 97.47.