Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Materials, Energy and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX), which rose 12.64% or 4.32 points to trade at 38.51 at the close. Meanwhile, Transcontinental Inc (TO:TCLa) added 4.04% or 0.73 points to end at 18.82 and Just Energy Group Inc . (TO:JE) was up 3.81% or 0.27 points to 7.36 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM), which fell 3.89% or 0.24 points to trade at 5.93 at the close. MAG Silver Corp . (TO:MAG) declined 3.53% or 0.79 points to end at 21.57 and Interfor Corp (TO:IFP) was down 3.46% or 0.53 points to 14.80.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 673 to 466 and 143 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 8.44% to 13.46.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.29% or 4.00 to $1352.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.60% or 0.28 to hit $46.86 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.18% or 0.58 to trade at $49.81 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.19% to 0.7785, while CAD/EUR rose 0.01% to 0.6894.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 94.72.