Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Materials and IT sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 0.78%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TO:PWT), which rose 4.35% or 0.070 points to trade at 1.680 at the close. Meanwhile, Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund (TO:CHE_u) added 3.17% or 0.56 points to end at 18.22 and Performance Sports Group Ltd (TO:PSG) was up 2.84% or 0.11 points to 3.98 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM), which fell 6.84% or 0.60 points to trade at 8.17 at the close. Eldorado Gold Corporation (TO:ELD) declined 5.82% or 0.33 points to end at 5.34 and BRP Inc. (TO:DOO) was down 5.16% or 1.15 points to 21.12.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 835 to 326 and 131 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 3.61% to 18.67 a new 1-month high.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.15% or 1.95 to $1288.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.92% or 0.45 to hit $48.43 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.33% or 0.67 to trade at $49.68 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.10% to 0.7782, while CAD/EUR rose 0.68% to 0.6944.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.66% at 95.04.