Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Materials and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC), which rose 8.96% or 2.32 points to trade at 28.21 at the close. Fortuna Silver Mines Inc (TO:FVI) added 6.15% or 0.28 points to end at 4.83 and ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI) was up 5.36% or 0.12 points to 2.36 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tahoe Resources Inc (TO:THO), which lost 9.15% or 1.69 points to trade at 16.78 in late trade. Bombardier Inc (TO:BBDb) declined 6.49% or 0.17 points to end at 2.45 and Black Diamond Group Limited (TO:BDI) shed 5.64% or 1.00 points to 16.72.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 800 to 638 and 206 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 4.67% to 14.70.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.34% or 4.00 to $1181.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.82% or 0.49 to hit $60.49 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.33% or 0.21 to trade at $63.74 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.14% to 0.8126, while CAD/EUR rose 0.43% to 0.7224.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.16% at 95.22.