Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Financials and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Dollarama Inc (TO:DOL), which rose 10.64% or 12.96 points to trade at 134.72 at the close. Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC) added 6.73% or 0.82 points to end at 13.01 and Transcontinental Inc (TO:TCLa) was up 6.09% or 1.49 points to 25.96 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Winpak Ltd. (TO:WPK), which lost 5.34% or 2.76 points to trade at 48.96 in late trade. MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG) declined 4.75% or 0.25 points to end at 5.01 and HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) shed 4.70% or 0.53 points to 10.75.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 600 to 481 and 155 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 23.76% to 6.32 a new 6-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.08% or 14.42 to $1353.42 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $49.13 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.59% or 0.32 to trade at $54.52 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.90% to 0.8253, while CAD/EUR fell 0.01% to 0.6862.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.81% at 91.46.