Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financials, Consumer Staples and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.96%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Element Financial Corporation (TO:EFN), which rose 5.49% or 0.78 points to trade at 14.99 at the close. Teck Resources Ltd (TO:TCKb) added 5.31% or 1.21 points to end at 23.98 and Secure Energy Services Inc . (TO:SES) was up 4.35% or 0.35 points to 8.53 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Concordia Healthcare Corp (TO:CXR), which lost 4.68% or 0.43 points to trade at 8.75 in late trade. Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust (TO:CUF_u) declined 3.85% or 0.62 points to end at 15.48 and Empire Company Ltd (TO:EMPa) shed 3.10% or 0.64 points to 19.98.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 699 to 428 and 151 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 7.05% to 16.34.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.76% or 10.05 to $1316.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.41% or 0.18 to hit $43.76 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 1.18% or 0.54 to trade at $46.39 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.29% to 0.7600, while CAD/EUR rose 0.37% to 0.6760.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.04% at 95.29.