Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the IT, Financials and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG), which rose 20.09% or 2.290 points to trade at 13.690 at the close. Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) added 18.79% or 1.64 points to end at 10.37 and Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd (TO:KL) was up 6.77% or 1.380 points to 21.750 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI), which lost 7.06% or 0.060 points to trade at 0.790 in late trade. BlackBerry Ltd (TO:BB) declined 3.27% or 0.44 points to end at 13.00 and Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP) shed 2.97% or 4.600 points to 150.050.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 657 to 443 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 up 4.58% to 15.74 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.78% or 10.50 to $1356.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.92% or 1.26 to hit $66.77 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.24% or 0.88 to trade at $71.92 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.20% to 0.7952, while CAD/EUR rose 0.11% to 0.6429.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 89.21.