Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.94% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were SSR Mining Inc (TO:SSRM), which rose 12.51% or 1.46 points to trade at 13.13 at the close. Pan American Silver Corp (TO:PAAS) added 10.74% or 2.18 points to end at 22.47 and First Majestic Silver Corp. (TO:FR) was up 8.61% or 0.68 points to 8.58 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nevsun Resources Ltd . (TO:NSU), which lost 16.41% or 0.540 points to trade at 2.750 in late trade. Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN) declined 8.90% or 0.83 points to end at 8.50 and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) shed 7.63% or 0.350 points to 4.240.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 841 to 309 and 121 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 5.50% to 13.24.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.93% or 11.85 to $1291.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 2.24% or 1.11 to hit $48.45 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.76% or 0.93 to trade at $51.77 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.32% to 0.7850, while CAD/EUR fell 0.45% to 0.6665.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 93.26.