Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the IT, Industrials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Lithium Americas Corp (TSX:LAC), which rose 5.30% or 2.25 points to trade at 44.74 at the close. OrganiGram Holdings Inc (TSX:OGI) added 3.94% or 0.10 points to end at 2.64 and MEG Energy Corp (TSX:MEG) was up 3.75% or 0.44 points to 12.18 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nuvei Corp (TSX:NVEI), which lost 35.50% or 43.57 points to trade at 79.16 in late trade. Enghouse Systems Ltd (TSX:ENGH) declined 6.26% or 3.37 points to end at 50.45 and Real Matters Inc (TSX:REAL) shed 5.11% or 0.44 points to 8.26.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 541 to 457 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 0.61% to 14.72.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.10% or 1.80 to $1786.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.62% or 0.45 to hit $72.50 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.69% or 0.52 to trade at $75.96 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.06% to 0.7905, while CAD/EUR fell 0.75% to 0.6967.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.50% at 95.890.