Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Materials, Financials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Nevsun Resources Ltd . (TO:NSU), which rose 7.92% or 0.210 points to trade at 2.860 at the close. Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (TO:FFH) added 5.00% or 30.32 points to end at 636.62 and Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP) was up 3.82% or 4.910 points to 133.500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cineplex Inc . (TO:CGX), which lost 5.53% or 2.08 points to trade at 35.53 in late trade. Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC) declined 5.38% or 0.57 points to end at 10.03 and Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) shed 4.04% or 0.14 points to 3.21.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 577 to 488 and 138 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 2.36% to 12.81.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.25% or 3.19 to $1291.51 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.63% or 0.79 to hit $47.62 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.72% or 0.38 to trade at $52.19 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.21% to 0.7983, while CAD/EUR rose 0.24% to 0.6763.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 93.22.