Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the IT, Clean Technology and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.93% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (TSX:GC), which rose 34.80% or 10.06 points to trade at 38.97 at the close. Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) added 16.93% or 8.20 points to end at 56.63 and Trillium Therapeutics Inc (TSX:TRIL) was up 9.25% or 1.59 points to 18.77 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Summit Industrial Income REIT (TSX:SMU_u), which lost 4.26% or 0.60 points to trade at 13.48 in late trade. Endeavour Mining Corp (TSX:EDV) declined 3.55% or 1.08 points to end at 29.32 and Torex Gold Resources Inc (TSX:TXG) shed 3.53% or 0.72 points to 19.68.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 657 to 339 and 121 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 0.74% or 13.95 to $1862.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.73% or 0.30 to hit $41.66 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.73% or 0.32 to trade at $43.93 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.21% to 0.7656, while CAD/EUR rose 0.16% to 0.6502.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 93.023.