Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the IT, Healthcare and Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite fell 2.22%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Detour Gold Corporation (TO:DGC), which rose 3.37% or 0.37 points to trade at 11.34 at the close. Meanwhile, Aphria Inc (TO:APH) added 2.52% or 0.320 points to end at 13.030 and Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS) was up 2.10% or 1.61 points to 78.22 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were HudBay Minerals Inc (TO:HBM), which fell 6.38% or 0.52 points to trade at 7.63 at the close. BlackBerry Ltd (TO:BB) declined 5.86% or 0.83 points to end at 13.33 and Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP) was down 5.81% or 12.570 points to 203.600.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 778 to 293 and 129 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 18.88% to 13.98 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.24% or 3.10 to $1267.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.71% or 0.49 to hit $68.09 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.73% or 0.55 to trade at $74.77 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.24% to 0.7523, while CAD/EUR fell 0.62% to 0.6428.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 93.94.