Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Telecoms and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TSX:TRQ), which rose 6.76% or 0.050 points to trade at 0.790 at the close. Crescent Point Energy Corp . (TSX:CPG) added 5.04% or 0.24 points to end at 5.00 and HudBay Minerals Inc (TSX:HBM) was up 3.65% or 0.17 points to 4.83 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Canopy Growth Corp (TSX:WEED), which lost 5.56% or 1.565 points to trade at 26.595 in late trade. Hexo Corp (TSX:HEXO) declined 4.95% or 0.1500 points to end at 2.8800 and Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSX:ACB) shed 4.32% or 0.150 points to 3.320.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 539 to 530 and 134 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 15.09% to 13.79.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.28% or 4.05 to $1468.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.47% or 0.28 to hit $59.30 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.22% or 0.14 to trade at $64.39 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.07% to 0.7558, while CAD/EUR fell 0.18% to 0.6813.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 97.417.