Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Real Estate and REITs sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.13%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS), which rose 10.71% or 8.05 points to trade at 83.23 at the close. Meanwhile, Kinaxis Inc (TO:KXS) added 3.67% or 3.46 points to end at 97.82 and Interfor Corp (TO:IFP) was up 3.48% or 0.66 points to 19.63 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were CES Energy Solutions Corp (TO:CEU), which fell 7.32% or 0.330 points to trade at 4.180 at the close. NexGen Energy Ltd. (TO:NXE) declined 5.54% or 0.150 points to end at 2.560 and Kinross Gold Corporation (TO:K) was down 5.18% or 0.20 points to 3.66.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 540 to 534 and 140 ended unchanged.
Shares in CES Energy Solutions Corp (TO:CEU) fell to 52-week lows; down 7.32% or 0.330 to 4.180.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 4.28% to 12.74.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.53% or 6.40 to $1198.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.36% or 0.26 to hit $72.02 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.15% or 0.12 to trade at $81.14 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.49% to 0.7682, while CAD/EUR fell 0.27% to 0.6542.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 93.87.