Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Materials, Energy and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Nevsun Resources Ltd . (TO:NSU), which rose 5.00% or 0.130 points to trade at 2.730 at the close. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) added 4.95% or 0.210 points to end at 4.450 and Bonavista Energy Corp (TO:BNP) was up 4.43% or 0.120 points to 2.830 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Badger Daylighting Ltd . (TO:BAD), which lost 5.98% or 1.81 points to trade at 28.44 in late trade. Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) declined 5.61% or 0.21 points to end at 3.53 and Intertape Polymer Group Inc . (TO:ITP) shed 3.54% or 0.74 points to 20.15.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 614 to 472 and 134 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 down 0.97% to 13.25.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.92% or 11.93 to $1278.47 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $47.59 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.22% or 0.11 to trade at $50.84 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.22% to 0.7843, while CAD/EUR rose 0.06% to 0.6677.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 93.73.