Investing.com – Canada stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Materials, Financials and Energy sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.90%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (TO:POT), which rose 4.82% or 1.16 points to trade at 25.23 at the close. Meanwhile, Russel Metals Inc . (TO:RUS) added 4.50% or 1.18 points to end at 27.39 and OceanaGold Corporation (TO:OGC) was up 4.25% or 0.170 points to 4.170 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were DH Corp (TO:DH), which fell 4.90% or 1.12 points to trade at 21.75 at the close. Lucara Diamond Corp (TO:LUC) declined 2.98% or 0.090 points to end at 2.930 and Bombardier Inc (TO:BBDb) was down 2.61% or 0.070 points to 2.610.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 740 to 409 and 128 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 12.36% to 11.56.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.50% or 6.05 to $1207.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 2.05% or 1.07 to hit $53.19 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 2.36% or 1.28 to trade at $55.44 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.03% to 0.7506, while CAD/EUR fell 0.31% to 0.7018.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.29% at 100.81.