Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Clean Technology, IT and REITs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 1.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were BRP Inc (TSX:DOO), which rose 3.78% or 3.20 points to trade at 87.83 at the close. Nuvei Corp (TSX:NVEI) added 3.68% or 1.19 points to end at 33.51 and Celestica Inc. (TSX:CLS) was up 3.01% or 1.46 points to 50.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lithium Americas Corp (TSX:LAC), which lost 7.99% or 0.45 points to trade at 5.18 in late trade. Ballard Power Systems Inc (TSX:BLDP) declined 6.61% or 0.29 points to end at 4.10 and Innergex Renewable Energy Inc . (TSX:INE) shed 6.41% or 0.58 points to 8.47.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 696 to 273 and 82 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 10.40% to 12.84 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.63% or 12.95 to $2,040.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.73% or 0.53 to hit $72.81 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.89% or 0.69 to trade at $78.02 a barrel.
CAD/USD was unchanged 0.57% to 0.74, while CAD/EUR unchanged 0.12% to 0.69.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.54% at 104.34.