Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Energy and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.53%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG), which rose 29.72% or 2.03 points to trade at 8.86 at the close. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) added 24.10% or 3.22 points to end at 16.58 and Semafo Inc . (TO:SMF) was up 5.36% or 0.15 points to 2.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Open Text Corp (TO:OTEX), which lost 5.31% or 2.53 points to trade at 45.13 in late trade. Ensign Energy Services Inc (TO:ESI) declined 4.60% or 0.36 points to end at 7.47 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) shed 4.49% or 0.390 points to 8.300.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 576 to 568 and 124 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 5.07% to 12.85.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.43% or 5.30 to $1221.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.97% or 0.45 to hit $45.98 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.11% or 0.55 to trade at $48.79 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.29% to 0.7283, while CAD/EUR rose 0.15% to 0.6696.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 99.44.