Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Energy and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were New Gold Inc (TO:NGD), which rose 5.48% or 0.160 points to trade at 3.080 at the close. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd . (TO:WFT) added 5.32% or 4.78 points to end at 94.68 and Alamos Gold Inc (TO:AGI) was up 5.05% or 0.34 points to 7.07 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aecon Group Inc . (TO:ARE), which lost 15.40% or 2.67 points to trade at 14.67 in late trade. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) declined 6.89% or 0.230 points to end at 3.110 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) shed 6.22% or 2.410 points to 36.350.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 615 to 473 and 133 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 0.92% to 12.01.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 1.16% or 14.90 to $1304.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.59% or 1.14 to hit $70.70 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.24% or 0.99 to trade at $78.81 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.35% to 0.7759, while CAD/EUR fell 0.59% to 0.6618.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 93.71.