Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, IT and Consumer Discretionary sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were NexGen Energy Ltd. (TO:NXE), which rose 7.99% or 0.250 points to trade at 3.380 at the close. Meanwhile, Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (TO:PBH) added 7.19% or 7.02 points to end at 104.72 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) was up 5.39% or 0.990 points to 19.350 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Klondex Mines Ltd (TO:KDX), which fell 3.80% or 0.120 points to trade at 3.040 at the close. Open Text Corp (TO:OTEX) declined 3.23% or 1.40 points to end at 41.95 and Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc . (TO:RBA) was down 2.73% or 0.910 points to 32.460.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 642 to 449 and 162 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 2.16% to 8.99.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.82% or 10.54 to $1292.24 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 2.09% or 1.19 to hit $58.02 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 1.13% or 0.71 to trade at $63.28 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.59% to 0.7872, while CAD/EUR fell 0.12% to 0.6658.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.78% at 93.16.