Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Energy, Materials and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.74%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Mullen Group Ltd . (TSX:MTL), which rose 8.56% or 0.79 points to trade at 10.02 at the close. FirstService Corp (TSX:FSV) added 2.83% or 3.81 points to end at 138.57 and Aritzia Inc (TSX:ATZ) was up 2.82% or 0.48 points to 17.51 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cameco Corp (TSX:CCO), which lost 7.57% or 0.99 points to trade at 12.09 in late trade. OceanaGold Corporation (TSX:OGC) declined 6.19% or 0.240 points to end at 3.640 and NexGen Energy Ltd. (TSX:NXE) shed 6.19% or 0.120 points to 1.820.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 657 to 386 and 128 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 7.27% to 10.47.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.64% or 9.15 to $1414.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.05% or 0.03 to hit $55.91 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $63.10 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.05% to 0.7600, while CAD/EUR rose 0.05% to 0.6817.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 97.523.