Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 1.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were New Flyer Industries Inc (TO:NFI), which rose 4.49% or 2.60 points to trade at 60.50 at the close. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (TO:BIP_u) added 2.30% or 1.20 points to end at 53.38 and Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (TO:WPM) was up 1.80% or 0.46 points to 26.03 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eldorado Gold Corporation (TO:ELD), which lost 11.11% or 0.15 points to trade at 1.20 in late trade. Trican Well Service Ltd . (TO:TCW) declined 6.23% or 0.210 points to end at 3.160 and MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG) shed 5.69% or 0.29 points to 4.81.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 873 to 283 and 112 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 12.87% to 12.98.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.58% or 7.60 to $1329.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.38% or 0.90 to hit $64.27 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.81% or 0.56 to trade at $68.91 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.17% to 0.7736, while CAD/EUR rose 0.06% to 0.6284.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 89.44.