Investing.com – Canada equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Energy and IT sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Northern Property Real Estate Investment Trust (TO:NPR_u), which rose 7.32% or 1.57 points to trade at 23.03 at the close. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc . (TO:RBA) added 7.01% or 2.390 points to end at 36.480 and New Gold Inc . (TO:NGD) was up 5.16% or 0.13 points to 2.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pengrowth Energy Corporation (TO:PGF), which lost 15.46% or 0.30 points to trade at 1.64 in late trade. ShawCor Ltd . (TO:SCL) declined 8.86% or 2.75 points to end at 28.30 and Sierra Wireless Inc . (TO:SW) shed 8.74% or 2.79 points to 29.12.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 774 to 552 and 189 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 down 4.58% to 14.60.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.20% or 2.20 to $1092.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.91% or 0.85 to hit $43.80 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.93% or 0.95 to trade at $48.56 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.16% to 0.7616, while CAD/EUR fell 0.47% to 0.6950.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 97.70.