Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary and IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 1.12% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were BRP Inc (TSX:DOO), which rose 10.70% or 3.04 points to trade at 31.45 at the close. Interfor Corp (TSX:IFP) added 8.66% or 0.57 points to end at 7.15 and First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TSX:FM) was up 8.23% or 0.65 points to 8.55 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Secure Energy Services Inc . (TSX:SES), which lost 8.26% or 0.10 points to trade at 1.11 in late trade. Frontera Energy Corp (TSX:FEC) declined 8.14% or 0.36 points to end at 4.06 and Vermilion Energy Inc . (TSX:VET) shed 6.82% or 0.38 points to 5.19.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 643 to 384 and 107 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 unchanged 0% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.21% or 3.65 to $1741.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 4.00% or 0.66 to hit $17.16 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 2.39% or 0.51 to trade at $21.84 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.06% to 0.7100, while CAD/EUR fell 0.37% to 0.6566.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 100.315.