Investing.com – Canada stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the IT, Consumer Discretionary and Healthcare sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.07%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Shaw Communications Inc (TO:SJRb), which rose 9.76% or 2.35 points to trade at 26.42 at the close. Meanwhile, Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd (TO:KML) added 5.49% or 0.91 points to end at 17.50 and Maple Leaf Foods Inc . (TO:MFI) was up 4.63% or 1.43 points to 32.31 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG), which fell 8.87% or 0.92 points to trade at 9.45 at the close. Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) declined 4.53% or 0.620 points to end at 13.070 and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TO:IVN) was down 4.18% or 0.120 points to 2.750.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 584 to 501 and 120 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 0.70% to 15.63.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.63% or 22.20 to $1337.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.40% or 0.27 to hit $67.09 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to trade at $72.06 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.10% to 0.7942, while CAD/EUR rose 0.22% to 0.6442.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 89.46.