Investing.com – Canada stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Healthcare, IT and Clean Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite gained 0.19%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Aurora Cannabis Inc (TO:ACB), which rose 9.72% or 0.700 points to trade at 7.900 at the close. Meanwhile, Canopy Growth Corp (TO:WEED) added 8.72% or 2.890 points to end at 36.030 and Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) was up 3.90% or 0.500 points to 13.320 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp (TO:LIF), which fell 3.07% or 0.67 points to trade at 21.15 at the close. Element Fleet Management Corp (TO:EFN) declined 2.60% or 0.15 points to end at 5.82 and Trican Well Service Ltd . (TO:TCW) was down 2.31% or 0.080 points to 3.380.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 664 to 419 and 124 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 1.07% to 11.97.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.19% or 2.40 to $1291.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.15% or 0.11 to hit $71.38 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.83% or 0.66 to trade at $78.64 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.60% to 0.7761, while CAD/EUR fell 0.29% to 0.6601.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 93.59.
