Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Staples, IT and Utilities sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.95%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aurora Cannabis Inc (TSX:ACB), which rose 1000.00% or 9.500 points to trade at 10.410 at the close. Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (TSX:PBH) added 12.57% or 9.68 points to end at 86.68 and Brookfield Infrastructure Corp (TSX:BIPC) was up 8.03% or 4.86 points to 65.39 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cascades Inc . (TSX:CAS), which lost 6.18% or 0.90 points to trade at 13.67 in late trade. HudBay Minerals Inc (TSX:HBM) declined 6.00% or 0.21 points to end at 3.29 and Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:CUF_u) shed 5.53% or 0.44 points to 7.51.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 556 to 471 and 106 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 June delivery was down 0.74% or 12.65 to $1701.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.24% or 0.06 to hit $24.68 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 2.74% or 0.85 to trade at $30.12 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.57% to 0.7138, while CAD/EUR fell 0.29% to 0.6602.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.47% at 100.237.