Canada stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the IT, Consumer Discretionary and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP), which rose 7.41% or 13.200 points to trade at 191.450 at the close. Meanwhile, Hudson's Bay Company (TO:HBC) added 5.11% or 0.40 points to end at 8.23 and Air Canada (TO:AC) was up 4.74% or 1.240 points to 27.410 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp (TO:LIF), which fell 10.78% or 3.25 points to trade at 26.90 at the close. Aphria Inc (TO:APHA) declined 8.74% or 1.030 points to end at 10.750 and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (TO:MAXR) was down 8.26% or 1.89 points to 20.99.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 743 to 379 and 107 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 13.36% to 15.82 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.03% or 0.40 to $1228.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 2.48% or 1.25 to hit $51.67 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 2.74% or 1.62 to trade at $60.66 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.13% to 0.7543, while CAD/EUR fell 0.04% to 0.6660.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 97.002.
