Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the IT, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 1.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were NFI Group Inc (TSX:NFI), which rose 20.79% or 2.31 points to trade at 13.42 at the close. Mattr Corp (TSX:MATR) added 15.16% or 1.43 points to end at 10.86 and goeasy Ltd (TSX:GSY) was up 5.60% or 7.90 points to 148.86 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NovaGold Resources Inc (TSX:NG), which lost 3.60% or 0.18 points to trade at 4.82 in late trade. Calibre Mining Corp (TSX:CXB) declined 2.26% or 0.07 points to end at 3.03 and Northland Power Inc . (TSX:NPI) shed 2.02% or 0.39 points to 18.95.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 677 to 222 and 94 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 up 2.56% to 16.43 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.02% or 0.51 to $2,991.81 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.96% or 0.64 to hit $67.19 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.96% or 0.67 to trade at $70.55 a barrel.
CAD/USD was unchanged 0.59% to 0.70, while CAD/EUR unchanged 0.27% to 0.64.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 103.69.