Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Mining and Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Badger Daylighting Ltd . (TO:BAD), which rose 16.71% or 3.54 points to trade at 24.72 at the close. Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) added 8.10% or 2.400 points to end at 32.020 and Extendicare Inc (TO:EXE) was up 4.80% or 0.39 points to 8.52 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Concordia Healthcare Corp (TO:CXR), which lost 39.09% or 8.31 points to trade at 12.95 in late trade. Northview Apartment REIT (TO:NVU_u) declined 4.87% or 1.07 points to end at 20.92 and ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI) shed 4.33% or 0.130 points to 2.870.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 667 to 474 and 145 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 4.56% to 13.52.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.67% or 9.05 to $1340.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 2.69% or 1.17 to hit $44.66 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 2.37% or 1.09 to trade at $47.13 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.23% to 0.7716, while CAD/EUR rose 0.07% to 0.6914.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.20% at 95.71.