Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Industrials, REITs and Real Estate sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Concordia Healthcare (TO:CXR), which rose 6.38% or 2.47 points to trade at 41.18 at the close. Meanwhile, Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) added 5.27% or 0.30 points to end at 5.99 and Alacer Gold Corp (TO:ASR) was up 5.14% or 0.16 points to 3.27 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Russel Metals Inc . (TO:RUS), which fell 6.46% or 1.51 points to trade at 21.86 at the close. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (TO:VRX) declined 5.23% or 1.89 points to end at 34.27 and DHX Media Ltd (TO:DHXb) was down 4.71% or 0.33 points to 6.67.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 453 to 355 and 96 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 0.65% to 15.28.
Gold for June delivery was down 1.49% or 19.05 to $1255.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.17% or 0.08 to hit $48.11 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.43% or 0.21 to trade at $48.72 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.47% to 0.7636, while CAD/EUR fell 0.37% to 0.6816.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.13% at 95.32.