Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Energy, Consumer Discretionary and Consumer Staples sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX), which rose 3.98% or 1.49 points to trade at 38.91 at the close. Meanwhile, Dorel Industries Inc (TO:DIIb) added 3.18% or 1.08 points to end at 35.04 and Torex Gold Resources Inc . (TO:TXG) was up 3.17% or 0.060 points to 1.950 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Surge Energy Inc . (TO:SGY), which fell 4.76% or 0.120 points to trade at 2.400 at the close. Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) declined 4.54% or 0.28 points to end at 5.89 and Secure Energy Services Inc . (TO:SES) was down 3.98% or 0.37 points to 8.92.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 637 to 511 and 141 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 2.19% to 13.41.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.23% or 2.75 to $1214.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.20% or 0.10 to hit $49.20 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.06% or 0.03 to trade at $49.92 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.17% to 0.7650, while CAD/EUR fell 0.35% to 0.6838.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.44% at 95.41.