Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Materials, Mining and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Sierra Wireless Inc . (TO:SW), which rose 22.09% or 4.16 points to trade at 22.99 at the close. Alacer Gold Corp (TO:ASR) added 11.69% or 0.36 points to end at 3.44 and IAMGold Corporation (TO:IMG) was up 9.72% or 0.42 points to 4.74 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX), which lost 13.28% or 5.91 points to trade at 38.58 in late trade. Concordia Healthcare (TO:CXR) declined 7.82% or 2.69 points to end at 31.69 and Great-West Lifeco Inc . (TO:GWO) shed 3.91% or 1.39 points to 34.14.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 500 to 312 and 99 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 5.07% to 16.84.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 1.46% or 18.60 to $1290.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.77% or 0.34 to hit $44.66 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.73% or 0.33 to trade at $45.34 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.44% to 0.7746, while CAD/EUR fell 0.43% to 0.6793.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.12% at 93.84.