Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Telecoms and Consumer Staples sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Klondex Mines Ltd. (TO:KDX), which rose 10.44% or 0.450 points to trade at 4.760 at the close. Meanwhile, Sierra Wireless Inc . (TO:SW) added 6.17% or 2.35 points to end at 40.46 and Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc (TO:ZZZ) was up 3.99% or 1.49 points to 38.88 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Home Capital Group Inc . (TO:HCG), which fell 7.07% or 0.86 points to trade at 11.30 at the close. HudBay Minerals Inc. (TO:HBM) declined 4.87% or 0.37 points to end at 7.23 and First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM) was down 4.03% or 0.48 points to 11.43.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 721 to 414 and 135 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 5.16% to 14.69.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.03% or 0.34 to $1268.56 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.87% or 0.40 to hit $46.48 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.91% or 0.44 to trade at $48.73 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.71% to 0.7558, while CAD/EUR rose 0.67% to 0.6743.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 96.98.