Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Staples, IT and REITs sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI), which rose 5.88% or 0.050 points to trade at 0.900 at the close. Fortuna Silver Mines Inc (TO:FVI) added 4.08% or 0.27 points to end at 6.89 and Metro Inc . (TO:MRU) was up 3.07% or 1.23 points to 41.27 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd (TO:KML), which lost 12.58% or 2.32 points to trade at 16.12 in late trade. Kinross Gold Corporation (TO:K) declined 8.93% or 0.45 points to end at 4.59 and Aurora Cannabis Inc (TO:ACB) shed 8.77% or 0.710 points to 7.390.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 591 to 512 and 117 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 2.27% to 15.07.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.30% or 4.00 to $1340.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 2.06% or 1.28 to hit $63.34 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 2.25% or 1.51 to trade at $68.62 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.59% to 0.7870, while CAD/EUR rose 0.27% to 0.6387.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 89.54.