Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Healthcare, IT and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC), which rose 15.09% or 1.34 points to trade at 10.22 at the close. ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI) added 11.52% or 0.190 points to end at 1.840 and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) was up 5.89% or 0.99 points to 17.79 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NexGen Energy Ltd. (TO:NXE), which lost 7.78% or 0.210 points to trade at 2.490 in late trade. Lucara Diamond Corp (TO:LUC) declined 4.11% or 0.120 points to end at 2.800 and Canadian Energy Services & Technology Corp (TO:CEU) shed 3.48% or 0.200 points to 5.550.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 584 to 548 and 115 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 6.95% to 13.26.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.91% or 11.41 to $1245.09 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.40% or 0.63 to hit $44.34 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.03% or 0.49 to trade at $46.88 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.01% to 0.7567, while CAD/EUR rose 0.40% to 0.6786.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.37% at 97.22.