Canada’s main stock benchmark held onto gains into the final stretch of Tuesday’s session, with strength in resource-linked names helping offset sharp declines in several heavyweight tech and financial-services stocks. By late afternoon in New York, the S&P/TSX Composite was modestly higher, while the tape showed a busy day in a handful of energy and gold names as traders positioned into the close.
Data below reflects the TSX market snapshot and leaderboards published by BNN Bloomberg’s TSX markets page.
S&P/TSX Composite Index
32,296.32 +112.44 +0.35%
As of: Feb 3, 2026, 4:09 p.m. ET
Quick read into the close
Advancers outpaced decliners, while a cluster of miners and commodity-linked names dominated the gainers list. On the downside, several large-cap tech and market-infrastructure names posted steep percentage drops, tightening breadth beneath the headline index move.
Market digest
Total volume
316,597,472
Currency
CAD
Issues advancing
137
Issues declining
81
Previous close
32,183.88
Price earnings ratio
20.79
1 year total return
31.37%
Year to date return
2.03%
30 day average volume
287,526,963.37
Valuation ratios
P/B 2.60 | P/S 2.23
The breadth numbers leaned constructive into late trading, but the day’s character was mixed: a few outsized percentage moves were enough to dominate the leaderboards, while the broader list of stocks looked steadier than the headlines suggested.
Most active near the close
Volume clustered in a familiar mix of energy, pipelines, gold exposure and airlines. Below are the most actively traded TSX names shown on the leaderboard into late afternoon.
NuVista Energy Ltd at $18.78 +0.26 +1.40%
Volume: 13,789,327
B2Gold Corp at $6.84 +0.17 +2.55%
Volume: 9,944,821
Enbridge Inc at $67.27 +1.28 +1.94%
Volume: 9,040,710
Barrick Mining Corp at $64.85 +1.48 +2.34%
Volume: 8,585,060
Baytex Energy Corp at $4.80 +0.19 +4.12%
Volume: 8,411,572
TELUS Corp at $18.92 +0.04 +0.21%
Volume: 7,327,940
Manulife Financial Corp at $51.91 -0.55 -1.05%
Volume: 6,558,430
Air Canada at $20.67 +1.09 +5.57%
Volume: 6,418,464
When the most active list tilts toward energy, gold and pipelines, it often signals a market more sensitive to commodity swings than to broad growth narratives. Tuesday’s late-day tape looked exactly like that, with miners climbing even as some large-cap software names retreated sharply.
Top TSX percentage gainers into late trading
The gainers list was dominated by energy, copper, uranium and precious-metals exposure. These outsized moves can reshape sector leadership quickly, especially on sessions when the index itself is only modestly higher.
Energy Fuels Inc at $33.41 +4.69 +16.33%
Volume: 1,943,965
Taseko Mines Ltd at $12.02 +1.47 +13.93%
Volume: 1,805,128
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd at $18.62 +1.48 +8.63%
Volume: 5,907,865
Hudbay Minerals Inc at $35.79 +2.83 +8.59%
Volume: 2,316,356
Lithium Americas Corp at $7.03 +0.55 +8.49%
Volume: 2,235,121
Aya Gold & Silver Inc at $23.30 +1.81 +8.42%
Volume: 2,373,972
Teck Resources Ltd at $80.76 +6.21 +8.33%
Volume: 1,480,280
Denison Mines Corp at $5.58 +0.41 +7.93%
Volume: 4,152,887
First Majestic Silver Corp at $30.08 +2.19 +7.85%
Volume: 2,596,972
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TSX losers near the close
Despite the S&P/TSX Composite holding modest gains into the close, several large-cap stocks ended the session sharply lower, with technology, financial services and market-infrastructure names leading the declines.
Thomson Reuters Corp dropped to $125.41, falling $23.59 or 15.83%, making it the steepest percentage decliner on the TSX, with trading volume near 2.64 million shares.
Altus Group Ltd slid to $41.63, down 10.59%, while Shopify Inc retreated sharply to $163.18, losing 9.66% and weighing on the broader technology sector.
Descartes Systems Group fell 9.01% to $90.43, and TMX Group declined 8.62% to $46.99, reflecting selling pressure across market-infrastructure stocks.
Other notable decliners included CGI Inc at $108.70, down 8.15%, Kinaxis Inc at $123.00, off 7.98%, and Lightspeed Commerce, which fell 7.69% to $13.44.
In the asset-management space, Brookfield Asset Management slipped 7.00% to $64.53, while Onex Corp ended the session down 6.78% at $108.74. The concentration of losses among widely held stocks tempered overall market sentiment into the close.
