Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Healthcare, IT and Consumer Discretionary sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.56%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Bombardier Inc (TO:BBDb), which rose 22.99% or 0.385 points to trade at 2.060 at the close. Meanwhile, Ensign Energy Services Inc (TO:ESI) added 7.16% or 0.38 points to end at 5.69 and Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD) was up 6.44% or 0.21 points to 3.47 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP), which fell 11.30% or 22.470 points to trade at 176.330 at the close. Bausch Health Companies Inc (TO:BHC) declined 7.02% or 2.34 points to end at 30.98 and Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) was down 6.87% or 3.180 points to 43.140.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 770 to 363 and 100 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 2.64% to 17.88.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.30% or 3.70 to $1224.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.59% or 0.90 to hit $57.36 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.16 to trade at $66.92 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.22% to 0.7588, while CAD/EUR fell 0.53% to 0.6626.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 96.09.