Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Information Technology and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 1.43% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (TO:AQN), which rose 4.80% or 0.41 points to trade at 8.95 at the close. Raging River Exploration Inc. (TO:RRX) added 4.56% or 0.36 points to end at 8.26 and Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (TO:FFH) was up 3.55% or 23.81 points to 693.72 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lightstream Resources Ltd (TO:LTS), which lost 9.00% or 0.09 points to trade at 0.91 in late trade. Black Diamond Group Limited (TO:BDI) declined 7.77% or 1.06 points to end at 12.58 and Capstone Mining Corp. (TO:CS) shed 7.75% or 0.100 points to 1.190.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1043 to 410 and 199 ended unchanged on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of options, was up 3.31% to 17.79.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was down 0.46% or 5.40 to $1161.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude Oil for delivery in April fell 2.51% or 1.25 to hit $48.74 a barrel, while the April Brent Oil contract fell 3.30% or 1.93 to trade at $56.60 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.59% to 0.7886, while CAD/EUR rose 0.88% to 0.7373.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.02% at 98.62.