Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Healthcare, IT and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG), which rose 7.02% or 1.10 points to trade at 16.77 at the close. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) added 6.06% or 1.14 points to end at 19.94 and DHX Media Ltd B (TO:DHXb) was up 4.59% or 0.18 points to 4.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Klondex Mines Ltd (TO:KDX), which lost 4.60% or 0.150 points to trade at 3.110 in late trade. Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC) declined 4.10% or 0.57 points to end at 13.34 and Tahoe Resources Inc (TO:THO) shed 4.02% or 0.24 points to 5.73.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 589 to 543 and 118 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 28.11% to 9.36 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 1.47% or 19.00 to $1277.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.55% or 0.31 to hit $56.40 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.89% or 0.56 to trade at $62.16 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.37% to 0.7802, while CAD/EUR rose 0.11% to 0.6649.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 94.00.