Investing.com – Canada stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Discretionary, Clean Technology and Utilities sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC), which rose 6.88% or 1.03 points to trade at 16.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Amaya Inc (TO:AYA) added 3.81% or 0.83 points to end at 22.63 and Tahoe Resources Inc (TO:THO) was up 3.44% or 0.34 points to 10.23 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Klondex Mines Ltd. (TO:KDX), which fell 6.00% or 0.360 points to trade at 5.640 at the close. MEG Energy Corp (TO:MEG) declined 3.94% or 0.25 points to end at 6.09 and Boyd Group Income Fund (TO:BYD_u) was down 2.95% or 2.55 points to 83.80.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 631 to 522 and 137 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 2.87% to 12.18.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.08% or 1.05 to $1246.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.86% or 0.41 to hit $48.11 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.81% or 0.41 to trade at $50.97 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.16% to 0.7482, while CAD/EUR fell 0.35% to 0.6922.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 99.52.