Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were CAE Inc. (TO:CAE), which rose 5.23% or 1.32 points to trade at 26.57 at the close. Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC) added 2.83% or 0.27 points to end at 9.81 and North West Company Inc (TO:NWC) was up 2.48% or 0.69 points to 28.49 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG), which lost 6.47% or 0.60 points to trade at 8.68 in late trade. Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) declined 5.14% or 0.25 points to end at 4.61 and Baytex Energy Corp (TO:BTE) shed 4.96% or 0.28 points to 5.37.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 630 to 459 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 1.08% to 12.14.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.30% or 3.90 to $1300.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 4.45% or 3.15 to hit $67.56 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 3.22% or 2.54 to trade at $76.25 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.71% to 0.7708, while CAD/EUR fell 0.21% to 0.6610.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 94.13.