Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Consumer Discretionary and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.67%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Surge Energy Inc . (TO:SGY), which rose 18.26% or 0.400 points to trade at 2.590 at the close. IAMGold Corporation (TO:IMG) added 14.53% or 0.25 points to end at 1.97 and Calfrac Well Services Ltd . (TO:CFW) was up 13.00% or 0.71 points to 6.17 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Stantec Inc. (TO:STN), which lost 11.40% or 4.16 points to trade at 32.34 in late trade. Paramount Resources Ltd . (TO:POU) declined 11.37% or 2.15 points to end at 16.76 and Mitel Networks Corporation (TO:MNW) shed 10.33% or 1.30 points to 11.29.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 749 to 586 and 195 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 5.02% to 15.26 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.27% or 2.90 to $1088.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.86% or 0.39 to hit $44.76 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.15% or 0.07 to trade at $49.66 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.50% to 0.7626, while CAD/EUR rose 0.33% to 0.6979.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 97.87.