Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Energy, Materials and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 5.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSX:ACB), which rose 15.87% or 0.200 points to trade at 1.460 at the close. Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:D_u) added 7.13% or 1.52 points to end at 22.85 and First Capital Realty Inc . (TSX:FCR_u) was up 5.98% or 0.77 points to 13.64 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pembina Pipeline Corp (TSX:PPL), which lost 17.89% or 5.26 points to trade at 24.14 in late trade. Seven Generations Energy Ltd (TSX:VII) declined 17.51% or 0.31 points to end at 1.46 and Enerflex Ltd . (TSX:EFX) shed 17.32% or 1.06 points to 5.06.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 902 to 205 and 66 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 April delivery was down 1.47% or 24.25 to $1626.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 4.29% or 0.97 to hit $21.63 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 6.11% or 1.61 to trade at $24.73 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.22% to 0.7149, while CAD/EUR fell 0.69% to 0.6421.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 1.03% at 98.425.