Investing.com – Canada stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Materials, Consumer Discretionary and Energy sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.11%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were New Gold Inc . (TO:NGD), which rose 7.20% or 0.250 points to trade at 3.720 at the close. Meanwhile, Aimia Inc (TO:AIM) added 5.16% or 0.44 points to end at 8.97 and B2Gold Corp (TO:BTO) was up 4.81% or 0.190 points to 4.140 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cameco Corp (TO:CCO), which fell 11.29% or 1.87 points to trade at 14.70 at the close. Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC) declined 2.55% or 0.45 points to end at 17.20 and Toromont Industries Ltd . (TO:TIH) was down 2.06% or 0.87 points to 41.28.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 704 to 436 and 142 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 7.09% to 13.30.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.04% or 0.45 to $1210.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.17% or 0.62 to hit $53.43 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.53% or 0.85 to trade at $56.43 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.09% to 0.7667, while CAD/EUR rose 0.15% to 0.7118.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 99.67.