Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Healthcare and Energy sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.86%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were OceanaGold Corporation (TO:OGC), which rose 5.06% or 0.120 points to trade at 2.490 at the close. Performance Sports Group Ltd (TO:PSG) added 4.53% or 0.74 points to end at 17.09 and Transcontinental Inc (TO:TCLa) was up 4.23% or 0.83 points to 20.43 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Concordia Healthcare (TO:CXR), which lost 11.03% or 5.27 points to trade at 42.49 in late trade. First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM) declined 9.97% or 0.86 points to end at 7.77 and Teck Resources Ltd (TO:TCKb) shed 9.35% or 0.90 points to 8.73.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 831 to 517 and 179 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 4.63% to 19.43.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.30% or 3.50 to $1168.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.08% or 0.51 to hit $46.59 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.37% or 0.69 to trade at $49.56 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.18% to 0.7680, while CAD/EUR fell 0.38% to 0.6748.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 94.79.