Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and Consumer Discretionary sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.79%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were OceanaGold Corporation (TSX:OGC), which rose 12.20% or 0.250 points to trade at 2.300 at the close. Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX:WDO) added 8.68% or 0.79 points to end at 9.89 and Centerra Gold Inc (TSX:CG) was up 8.54% or 0.72 points to 9.15 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cronos Group Inc (TSX:CRON), which lost 11.14% or 0.89 points to trade at 7.10 in late trade. Enerflex Ltd . (TSX:EFX) declined 8.33% or 0.66 points to end at 7.26 and Ero Copper Corp (TSX:ERO) shed 7.57% or 1.14 points to 13.92.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 641 to 460 and 89 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 up 2.72% or 43.30 to $1638.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.26% or 0.59 to hit $47.34 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.23% or 0.12 to trade at $52.02 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.41% to 0.7474, while CAD/EUR fell 0.80% to 0.6685.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 97.097.