Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Utilities, Real Estate and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Alamos Gold Inc (TSX:AGI), which rose 12.49% or 1.35 points to trade at 12.16 at the close. Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSX:ACB) added 7.09% or 0.360 points to end at 5.440 and FirstService Corp (TSX:FSV) was up 6.00% or 10.29 points to 181.86 in late trade.
Biggest losers included OceanaGold Corporation (TSX:OGC), which lost 10.27% or 0.190 points to trade at 1.660 in late trade. Shopify Inc (TSX:SHOP) declined 4.98% or 68.00 points to end at 1296.41 and Element Fleet Management Corp (TSX:EFN) shed 4.89% or 0.63 points to 12.25.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 648 to 398 and 96 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 unchanged 0% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.51% or 9.50 to $1869.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.92% or 1.09 to hit $36.30 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 3.28% or 1.30 to trade at $38.34 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.07% to 0.7510, while CAD/EUR rose 0.70% to 0.6432.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.57% at 93.942.