Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, Mining and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 2.80% to hit a new 52-week low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TO:PWT), which rose 3.03% or 0.02 points to trade at 0.68 at the close. Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp (TO:PRE) added 1.63% or 0.05 points to end at 3.12 and Avigilon Corp (TO:AVO) was up 1.60% or 0.18 points to 11.43 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Concordia Healthcare (TO:CXR), which lost 25.43% or 19.46 points to trade at 57.05 in late trade. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) declined 16.30% or 43.20 points to end at 221.81 and First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM) shed 14.99% or 0.82 points to 4.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1068 to 294 and 176 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 17.79% to 27.54 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 1.22% or 14.00 to $1131.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 2.71% or 1.24 to hit $44.46 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 2.57% or 1.25 to trade at $47.35 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.44% to 0.7468, while CAD/EUR fell 0.84% to 0.6644.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.24% at 96.13.