Canada stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, IT and Consumer Discretionary sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite lost 0.57% to hit a new 3-months low.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG), which rose 6.25% or 0.64 points to trade at 10.88 at the close. Meanwhile, Cameco Corp (TO:CCO) added 5.35% or 0.80 points to end at 15.76 and Alacer Gold Corp (TO:ASR) was up 4.67% or 0.100 points to 2.240 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Shopify Inc (TO:SHOP), which fell 6.62% or 13.630 points to trade at 192.350 at the close. HudBay Minerals Inc (TO:HBM) declined 6.38% or 0.42 points to end at 6.16 and Bombardier Inc (TO:BBDb) was down 5.93% or 0.270 points to 4.280.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 708 to 420 and 103 ended unchanged.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 0.73% to 13.77.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.02% or 0.30 to $1203.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 2.46% or 1.88 to hit $74.53 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.80% or 1.55 to trade at $84.74 a barrel.
CAD/USD was down 0.31% to 0.7745, while CAD/EUR fell 0.66% to 0.6723.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 95.43.
