Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the IT, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were SSR Mining Inc (TO:SSRM), which rose 3.84% or 0.62 points to trade at 16.76 at the close. Mullen Group Ltd . (TO:MTL) added 2.90% or 0.35 points to end at 12.41 and Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP) was up 2.55% or 7.020 points to 282.170 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MTY Food Group Inc (TO:MTY), which lost 8.16% or 4.78 points to trade at 53.79 in late trade. Cronos Group Inc (TO:CRON) declined 6.59% or 1.5900 points to end at 22.5400 and Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) shed 5.35% or 0.790 points to 13.990.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 574 to 493 and 128 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 2.25% to 11.74.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.37% or 18.00 to $1295.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.36% or 0.88 to hit $63.73 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $70.97 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.11% to 0.7477, while CAD/EUR rose 0.05% to 0.6639.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 96.812.