Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Energy, Financials and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Restaurant Brands Intl (TO:QSR), which rose 9.64% or 7.34 points to trade at 83.51 at the close. TransAlta Corp (TO:TA) added 5.80% or 0.39 points to end at 7.11 and MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG) was up 5.44% or 0.27 points to 5.23 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Baytex Energy Corp (TO:BTE), which lost 5.60% or 0.13 points to trade at 2.19 in late trade. Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) declined 5.45% or 0.15 points to end at 2.60 and Vermilion Energy Inc . (TO:VET) shed 5.33% or 1.73 points to 30.75.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 566 to 529 and 114 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 down 1.45% to 17.61.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.11% or 1.35 to $1282.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.70% or 0.37 to hit $52.64 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.57% or 0.35 to trade at $61.15 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.07% to 0.7492, while CAD/EUR fell 0.14% to 0.6582.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 95.795.