Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.23%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Baytex Energy Corp (TO:BTE), which rose 4.95% or 0.15 points to trade at 3.18 at the close. Meanwhile, Russel Metals Inc . (TO:RUS) added 4.85% or 1.23 points to end at 26.61 and HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) was up 4.39% or 0.31 points to 7.37 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG), which fell 8.57% or 1.52 points to trade at 16.22 at the close. Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. (TO:TRQ) declined 6.48% or 0.230 points to end at 3.320 and Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP) was down 6.42% or 7.850 points to 114.370.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 628 to 500 and 119 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 45.18% to 12.50.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.24% or 3.03 to $1249.43 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.87% or 0.81 to hit $44.19 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.87% or 0.86 to trade at $46.90 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.50% to 0.7589, while CAD/EUR fell 0.87% to 0.6693.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 1.03% at 96.11.