Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining, Telecoms and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (TO:CP), which rose 5.20% or 10.13 points to trade at 205.10 at the close. Trican Well Service Ltd . (TO:TCW) added 2.74% or 0.08 points to end at 3.00 and Novagold Resources Inc . (TO:NG) was up 2.68% or 0.10 points to 3.83 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Black Diamond Group Limited (TO:BDI), which lost 9.33% or 1.53 points to trade at 14.87 in late trade. Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TO:PWT) declined 8.06% or 0.15 points to end at 1.71 and IAMGold Corporation (TO:IMG) shed 6.25% or 0.11 points to 1.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 869 to 508 and 185 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 22.97% to 12.42.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.96% or 10.60 to $1092.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 3.32% or 1.69 to hit $49.17 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.83% or 1.04 to trade at $55.99 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.66% to 0.7673, while CAD/EUR fell 0.54% to 0.7024.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.20% at 97.60.