Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.76% to hit a new 6-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Novagold Resources Inc . (TO:NG), which rose 5.47% or 0.29 points to trade at 5.59 at the close. NexGen Energy Ltd. (TO:NXE) added 4.42% or 0.110 points to end at 2.600 and Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG) was up 4.26% or 0.63 points to 15.42 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cenovus Energy Inc (TO:CVE), which lost 8.17% or 0.84 points to trade at 9.44 in late trade. Gran Tierra Energy Inc . (TO:GTE) declined 5.46% or 0.160 points to end at 2.770 and Exchange Income Corporation (TO:EIF) shed 5.42% or 1.670 points to 29.120.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 716 to 408 and 139 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 2.87% to 13.63.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.21% or 2.59 to $1244.11 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 2.05% or 0.91 to hit $43.52 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.96% or 0.92 to trade at $45.99 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.41% to 0.7534, while CAD/EUR fell 0.18% to 0.6773.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 97.43.