Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the IT, Consumer Discretionary and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Kinross Gold Corporation (TO:K), which rose 14.23% or 0.40 points to trade at 3.21 at the close. Silver Standard Resources Inc . (TO:SSO) added 11.61% or 0.78 points to end at 7.50 and Pan American Silver Corp (TO:PAA) was up 10.97% or 1.16 points to 11.73 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sierra Wireless Inc . (TO:SW), which lost 24.50% or 4.94 points to trade at 15.22 in late trade. Kinaxis Inc (TO:KXS) declined 13.12% or 5.72 points to end at 37.91 and Primero Mining Corp (TO:P) shed 12.79% or 0.330 points to 2.250.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 594 to 588 and 326 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 2.82% to 25.13.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was up 1.39% or 16.10 to $1173.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 2.25% or 0.71 to hit $31.00 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 1.00% or 0.34 to trade at $34.12 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 1.00% to 0.7196, while CAD/EUR fell 0.62% to 0.6447.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.45% at 96.94.