Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Utilities, Clean Technology and Healthcare sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.60%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aecon Group Inc. (TO:ARE), which rose 5.21% or 0.64 points to trade at 12.92 at the close. Meanwhile, OceanaGold Corporation (TO:OGC) added 2.98% or 0.090 points to end at 3.110 and Firstservice Corp (TO:FSV) was up 2.50% or 0.81 points to 33.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TO:PRE), which fell 5.63% or 0.30 points to trade at 5.03 at the close. Avigilon Corp (TO:AVO) declined 4.56% or 0.81 points to end at 16.94 and Trilogy Energy Corp (TO:TET) was down 4.53% or 0.28 points to 5.90.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 779 to 608 and 200 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 1.79% to 12.62 a new 1-month low.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.15% or 1.80 to $1173.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.21% or 0.12 to hit $59.58 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.09% or 0.06 to trade at $63.15 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.06% to 0.8119, while CAD/EUR rose 0.39% to 0.7269.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 95.60.