Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Consumer Staples and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Concordia Healthcare (TO:CXR), which rose 25.24% or 7.79 points to trade at 38.65 at the close. OceanaGold Corporation (TO:OGC) added 6.00% or 0.240 points to end at 4.240 and Celestica Inc. (TO:CLS) was up 5.49% or 0.73 points to 14.02 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG), which lost 7.78% or 0.59 points to trade at 6.99 in late trade. HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) declined 7.12% or 0.39 points to end at 5.09 and Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (TO:PBH) shed 4.11% or 2.38 points to 55.52.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 434 to 392 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 10.37% to 14.16.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.30% or 3.80 to $1250.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.49% or 0.66 to hit $43.52 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 2.07% or 0.95 to trade at $44.85 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.58% to 0.7856, while CAD/EUR fell 0.50% to 0.6959.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 94.61.