Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Clean Technology and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Thomson Reuters Corp (TSX:TRI), which rose 10.63% or 10.76 points to trade at 112.02 at the close. Equitable Group Inc. (TSX:EQB) added 6.56% or 8.14 points to end at 132.21 and Enerplus Corporation (TSX:ERF) was up 3.70% or 0.23 points to 6.44 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lightspeed POS Inc (TSX:LSPD), which lost 7.76% or 7.95 points to trade at 94.49 in late trade. Trillium Therapeutics Inc (TSX:TRIL) declined 7.71% or 1.25 points to end at 14.96 and Aphria Inc (TSX:APHA) shed 7.10% or 1.730 points to 22.640.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 715 to 336 and 103 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 unchanged 0% to 11.27.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.28% or 5.05 to $1803.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.03% or 0.02 to hit $61.68 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.26% or 0.17 to trade at $64.53 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.15% to 0.7937, while CAD/EUR rose 0.16% to 0.6530.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 90.093.