Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Materials, Financials and IT sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.90%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were BlackBerry Ltd (TSX:BB), which rose 35.42% or 2.71 points to trade at 10.36 at the close. Torex Gold Resources Inc (TSX:TXG) added 9.71% or 1.74 points to end at 19.66 and Osisko Mining Corp (TSX:OSK) was up 9.50% or 0.34 points to 3.92 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSX:ACB), which lost 11.93% or 1.820 points to trade at 13.430 in late trade. Aphria Inc (TSX:APHA) declined 7.20% or 0.785 points to end at 10.125 and Cronos Group Inc (TSX:CRON) shed 6.92% or 0.81 points to 10.90.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 688 to 375 and 88 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 February delivery was up 2.05% or 36.50 to $1817.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.94% or 0.88 to hit $44.46 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.09% or 0.52 to trade at $47.36 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.51% to 0.7729, while CAD/EUR fell 0.46% to 0.6415.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 91.295.