Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the IT, Consumer Discretionary and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS), which rose 4.96% or 2.19 points to trade at 46.34 at the close. Paramount Resources Ltd . (TO:POU) added 4.03% or 0.67 points to end at 17.31 and Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN) was up 4.00% or 0.20 points to 5.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG), which lost 4.24% or 0.570 points to trade at 12.880 in late trade. Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd (TO:KML) declined 3.84% or 0.69 points to end at 17.30 and Interfor Corp (TO:IFP) shed 3.73% or 0.94 points to 24.23.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 659 to 452 and 122 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 24.11% to 15.34.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.38% or 5.10 to $1348.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.44% or 0.30 to hit $68.17 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.18 to trade at $73.66 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.24% to 0.7900, while CAD/EUR fell 0.06% to 0.6396.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 89.60.