Investing.com – Canada stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Energy, Materials and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite declined 0.21%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS), which rose 30.04% or 18.02 points to trade at 78.01 at the close. Meanwhile, Paramount Resources Ltd . (TO:POU) added 3.98% or 0.58 points to end at 15.14 and ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TO:PLI) was up 3.28% or 0.020 points to 0.630 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Precision Drilling Corporation (TO:PD), which fell 7.11% or 0.32 points to trade at 4.18 at the close. First Majestic Silver Corp. (TO:FR) declined 5.76% or 0.60 points to end at 9.82 and Yamana Gold Inc (TO:YRI) was down 5.33% or 0.22 points to 3.91.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 621 to 460 and 131 ended unchanged.
Shares in Canada Goose Holdings Inc (TO:GOOS) rose to all time highs; gaining 30.04% or 18.02 to 78.01.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 0.16% to 12.54.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 1.95% or 25.50 to $1282.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 3.50% or 2.34 to hit $64.55 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 3.46% or 2.63 to trade at $73.31 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.64% to 0.7581, while CAD/EUR fell 1.02% to 0.6530.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 94.78.
