Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Materials, Utilities and Consumer Staples sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Sun Life Financial Inc. (TO:SLF), which rose 9.82% or 4.55 points to trade at 50.90 at the close. Bombardier Inc (TO:BBDb) added 9.50% or 0.170 points to end at 1.960 and Manulife Financial Corporation (TO:MFC) was up 9.21% or 1.85 points to 21.94 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Silver Wheaton Corp. (TO:SLW), which lost 16.22% or 5.23 points to trade at 27.01 in late trade. Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) declined 11.38% or 2.620 points to end at 20.410 and IAMGold Corporation (TO:IMG) shed 10.36% or 0.600 points to 5.190.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 648 to 564 and 103 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 5.16% to 14.68.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 1.16% or 14.75 to $1258.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.03% or 0.92 to hit $44.35 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.60% or 0.74 to trade at $45.62 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.40% to 0.7420, while CAD/EUR fell 0.21% to 0.6813.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.15% at 98.81.