Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Energy, Healthcare and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Intertape Polymer Group Inc . (TSX:ITP), which rose 19.81% or 3.31 points to trade at 20.02 at the close. SSR Mining Inc (TSX:SSRM) added 10.82% or 2.56 points to end at 26.22 and Teranga Gold Corp (TSX:TGZ) was up 6.70% or 0.88 points to 14.01 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NFI Group Inc (TSX:NFI), which lost 9.97% or 1.81 points to trade at 16.35 in late trade. Cascades Inc . (TSX:CAS) declined 9.34% or 1.41 points to end at 13.69 and Spin Master Corp (TSX:TOY) shed 7.77% or 2.54 points to 30.13.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 651 to 365 and 95 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 December delivery was up 0.70% or 13.05 to $1874.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.87% or 0.36 to hit $41.09 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.75% or 0.33 to trade at $43.47 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.60% to 0.7609, while CAD/EUR fell 0.82% to 0.6445.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 92.983.