Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Energy sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Major Drilling Group International (TO:MDI), which rose 5.26% or 0.32 points to trade at 6.40 at the close. Autocanada Inc (TO:ACQ) added 5.06% or 1.96 points to end at 40.67 and Surge Energy Inc. (TO:SGY) was up 4.64% or 0.180 points to 4.060 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AuRico Gold Inc. (TO:AUQ), which lost 3.29% or 0.12 points to trade at 3.53 in late trade. Silver Standard Resources Inc. (TO:SSO) declined 2.90% or 0.24 points to end at 8.04 and Sierra Wireless Inc. (TO:SW) shed 2.47% or 0.83 points to 32.77.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 695 to 693 and 204 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 up 1.26% to 12.89.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.24% or 2.80 to $1173.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.22% or 0.74 to hit $60.27 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.32% or 0.85 to trade at $63.60 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.54% to 0.8068, while CAD/EUR fell 0.83% to 0.7203.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.14% at 95.48.