Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Baytex Energy Corp (TO:BTE), which rose 4.95% or 0.15 points to trade at 3.18 at the close. Russel Metals Inc . (TO:RUS) added 4.85% or 1.23 points to end at 26.61 and HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) was up 4.39% or 0.31 points to 7.37 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG), which lost 8.57% or 1.52 points to trade at 16.22 in late trade. Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TO:TRQ) declined 6.48% or 0.230 points to end at 3.320 and Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP) shed 6.42% or 7.850 points to 114.370.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 628 to 500 and 119 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 45.18% to 12.50.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.25% or 3.13 to $1249.53 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.87% or 0.81 to hit $44.19 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.87% or 0.86 to trade at $46.90 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.58% to 0.7595, while CAD/EUR fell 0.87% to 0.6693.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 1.03% at 96.11.