Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Materials, Mining and Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.65%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Mitel Networks Corporation (TO:MNW), which rose 4.30% or 0.34 points to trade at 8.25 at the close. Meanwhile, Badger Daylighting Ltd . (TO:BAD) added 2.87% or 0.63 points to end at 22.59 and Manulife Financial Corporation (TO:MFC) was up 2.64% or 0.48 points to 18.69 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Torex Gold Resources Inc . (TO:TXG), which fell 10.33% or 0.220 points to trade at 1.910 at the close. Eldorado Gold Corporation (TO:ELD) declined 9.77% or 0.64 points to end at 5.91 and New Gold Inc . (TO:NGD) was down 9.42% or 0.57 points to 5.48.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 557 to 253 and 96 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 1.79% to 15.39.
Gold for June delivery was down 1.45% or 18.55 to $1258.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.93% or 0.45 to hit $47.86 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.52% or 0.75 to trade at $48.53 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.92% to 0.7675, while CAD/EUR fell 0.09% to 0.6841.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.68% at 95.19.