Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Mining and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were B2Gold Corp (TO:BTO), which rose 8.57% or 0.150 points to trade at 1.900 at the close. Pengrowth Energy Corporation (TO:PGF) added 4.96% or 0.06 points to end at 1.27 and Cameco Corp (TO:CCO) was up 4.73% or 0.75 points to 16.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX), which lost 50.71% or 46.44 points to trade at 45.14 in late trade. Performance Sports Group Ltd (TO:PSG) declined 9.71% or 0.51 points to end at 4.74 and HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) shed 9.35% or 0.46 points to 4.46.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 780 to 481 and 328 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 0.75% to 21.42.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was down 0.91% or 11.30 to $1233.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 2.15% or 0.80 to hit $36.38 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 2.05% or 0.81 to trade at $38.72 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.76% to 0.7484, while CAD/EUR fell 0.80% to 0.6738.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.06% at 96.66.