Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the IT, Consumer Discretionary and Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS), which rose 4.95% or 2.18 points to trade at 46.34 at the close. Meanwhile, Paramount Resources Ltd . (TO:POU) added 4.03% or 0.67 points to end at 17.31 and Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN) was up 4.00% or 0.20 points to 5.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG), which fell 4.24% or 0.570 points to trade at 12.880 at the close. Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd (TO:KML) declined 3.84% or 0.69 points to end at 17.30 and Interfor Corp (TO:IFP) was down 3.73% or 0.94 points to 24.23.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 660 to 451 and 122 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 24.11% to 15.34.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.37% or 5.00 to $1348.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.42% or 0.29 to hit $68.18 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.18 to trade at $73.66 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.24% to 0.7900, while CAD/EUR fell 0.06% to 0.6396.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 89.60.