Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Materials, Healthcare and REITs sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aecon Group Inc . (TO:ARE), which rose 5.48% or 0.81 points to trade at 15.58 at the close. HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) added 5.10% or 0.45 points to end at 9.28 and Dominion Diamond Corp (TO:DDC) was up 3.58% or 0.42 points to 12.16 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kinross Gold Corporation (TO:K), which lost 8.19% or 0.38 points to trade at 4.26 in late trade. First Majestic Silver Corp. (TO:FR) declined 8.08% or 0.97 points to end at 11.04 and Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) shed 7.95% or 1.620 points to 18.760.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 607 to 560 and 133 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 2.77% to 14.37.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 1.83% or 22.15 to $1189.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.10% or 0.05 to hit $47.98 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.35% or 0.17 to trade at $48.95 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.39% to 0.7411, while CAD/EUR rose 0.27% to 0.7021.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.61% at 101.71.