Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the IT, Clean Technology and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Shopify Inc (TSX:SHOP), which rose 5.87% or 65.14 points to trade at 1174.98 at the close. Cargojet Inc (TSX:CJT) added 5.18% or 7.77 points to end at 157.66 and Empire Company Ltd (TSX:EMPa) was up 5.03% or 1.57 points to 32.76 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hexo Corp (TSX:HEXO), which lost 5.41% or 0.060 points to trade at 1.050 in late trade. Enerflex Ltd . (TSX:EFX) declined 4.37% or 0.24 points to end at 5.25 and IAMGold Corporation (TSX:IMG) shed 3.98% or 0.18 points to 4.34.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 526 to 462 and 116 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 August delivery was down 0.27% or 4.75 to $1730.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 2.50% or 0.95 to hit $38.91 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.99% or 0.81 to trade at $41.52 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.28% to 0.7349, while CAD/EUR rose 0.06% to 0.6558.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 97.420.