Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Discretionary, REITs and Real Estate 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 Stars Group Inc (TO:TSGI), which rose 9.81% or 2.09 points to trade at 23.40 at the close. Empire Company Ltd (TO:EMPa) added 6.15% or 1.39 points to end at 24.00 and Cascades Inc . (TO:CAS) was up 4.20% or 0.66 points to 16.39 in late trade.
Biggest losers included OceanaGold Corporation (TO:OGC), which lost 5.48% or 0.210 points to trade at 3.620 in late trade. Crew Energy Inc (TO:CR) declined 5.20% or 0.21 points to end at 3.83 and Kinaxis Inc (TO:KXS) shed 4.68% or 3.61 points to 73.47.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 544 to 530 and 144 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 16.22% to 10.95.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.26% or 3.48 to $1325.82 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $49.88 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.09% or 0.05 to trade at $55.52 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.10% to 0.8207, while CAD/EUR fell 0.45% to 0.6866.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 91.81.