Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Mining, Energy and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.86% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Lightstream Resources Ltd (TO:LTS), which rose 23.28% or 0.27 points to trade at 1.43 at the close. Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TO:PRE) added 20.40% or 0.82 points to end at 4.84 and Legacy Oil + Gas Inc (TO:LEG) was up 12.97% or 0.24 points to 2.09 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Canfor Corporation (TO:CFP), which lost 6.79% or 2.10 points to trade at 28.82 in late trade. Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (TO:MBT) declined 6.28% or 1.57 points to end at 23.44 and Sierra Wireless Inc. (TO:SW) shed 6.07% or 3.01 points to 46.54.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 908 to 560 and 154 ended unchanged on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of options, was down 0.43% to 18.57.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was up 0.09% or 1.20 to $1265.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude Oil for delivery in March rose 4.54% or 2.20 to hit $50.65 a barrel, while the March Brent Oil contract rose 4.40% or 2.38 to trade at $56.55 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 1.14% to 0.8042, while CAD/EUR fell 0.14% to 0.7003.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.97% at 93.66.