Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Health Care, Industrials and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp (TO:LIF), which rose 9.26% or 1.36 points to trade at 16.05 at the close. Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (TO:AQN) added 8.12% or 0.69 points to end at 9.19 and ARC Resources Ltd. (TO:ARX) was up 3.89% or 0.83 points to 22.19 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TO:PRE), which lost 12.94% or 0.40 points to trade at 2.69 in late trade. Tahoe Resources Inc (TO:THO) declined 8.45% or 1.28 points to end at 13.86 and Athabasca Oil Corporation (TO:ATH) shed 6.70% or 0.12 points to 1.67.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 744 to 656 and 194 ended unchanged on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of options, was up 2.12% to 17.37.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was up 0.13% or 1.50 to $1153.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude Oil for delivery in May fell 2.03% or 0.95 to hit $46.10 a barrel, while the May Brent Oil contract fell 1.58% or 0.87 to trade at $54.14 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.01% to 0.7822, while CAD/EUR fell 0.72% to 0.7403.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.57% at 100.15.