Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Energy, Materials and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 1.70% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (TO:FFH), which rose 1.99% or 14.55 points to trade at 744.00 at the close. Descartes Systems Group Inc (TO:DSG) added 1.55% or 0.42 points to end at 27.45 and DH Corp (TO:DH) was up 1.43% or 0.42 points to 29.76 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Concordia Healthcare Corp (TO:CXR), which lost 8.19% or 0.76 points to trade at 8.52 in late trade. Bonavista Energy Corp (TO:BNP) declined 8.12% or 0.350 points to end at 3.960 and Baytex Energy Corp (TO:BTE) shed 7.61% or 0.44 points to 5.34.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 888 to 287 and 138 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 11.31% to 17.52 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.31% or 4.05 to $1321.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 2.74% or 1.27 to hit $45.02 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 2.40% or 1.16 to trade at $47.16 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.99% to 0.7593, while CAD/EUR fell 0.85% to 0.6768.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.45% at 95.55.