Investing.com – Canada stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the IT , Financials and Industrials sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite added 1.45%.

The best performers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were NFI Group Inc (TSX: NFI ), which rose 20.79% or 2.31 points to trade at 13.42 at the close. Meanwhile, Mattr Corp (TSX: MATR ) added 15.16% or 1.43 points to end at 10.86 and goeasy Ltd (TSX: GSY ) was up 5.60% or 7.90 points to 148.86 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were NovaGold Resources Inc (TSX: NG ), which fell 3.60% or 0.18 points to trade at 4.82 at the close. Calibre Mining Corp (TSX: CXB ) declined 2.26% or 0.07 points to end at 3.03 and Northland Power Inc . (TSX: NPI ) was down 2.02% or 0.39 points to 18.95.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Toronto Stock Exchange by 677 to 222 and 94 ended unchanged.

The S&P/TSX 60 VIX , which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was up 2.56% to 16.43 a new 1-month high.

Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.02% or 0.74 to $2,992.04 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.96% or 0.64 to hit $67.19 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.96% or 0.67 to trade at $70.55 a barrel.

CAD/USD was unchanged 0.59% to 0.70, while CAD/EUR unchanged 0.27% to 0.64.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 103.68.