Investing.com - Canadian equities started mixed on Wednesday. The top gainers were Capped Consumer Staples, Capped Industrials and Capped Financial indices. The top fallers were Capped Materials, Capped REIT and Capped Information Technology indices.
At the market open in Toronto, the TSX Composite Index climbed 0.26%. The TSX Venture and the TSX Smallcap were down. The TSX Venture fell 0.25%, while the Smallcap was down by 0.03%.
- Birchcliff Energy (TSX:BIR): Rose 8.08% or 0.470 points to 6.290.
- Badger Infrastructure Solutions (TSX:BDGI): Increased 2.25% or 0.87 points to 39.48.
- Interfor Corp (TSX:IFP): Climbed 2.00% or 0.36 points to 18.39.
- B2Gold (TSX:BTO): Declined 6.92% or 0.24 points to 3.23.
- HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM): Dropped 2.47% or 0.30 points to 11.84.
- Energy Fuels Inc (TSX:EFR): Fell 2.74% or 0.230 points to 8.160
In Commodities Trading:
- March Brent Oil Contract climbed by 0.56% or 0.44 points to 79.44 a barrel.
- Crude Oil for March delivery rose 0.42 points to 75.89 a barrel.
- Gold Futures for February delivery dropped 19.24 points to 2,751.66 a troy ounce.
Currency Markets:
- USD/CAD is stable at 1.4384.
- EUR/CAD is trading at 1.4967.
- The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 108.055
Main Economic Events:
Today's main economic calendar for Canada has the retail sales data in focus.