Oil and gold shares kept Toronto markets in the red Monday, while a harsh report on U.S. consumer borrowing costs late in the session pushed U.S. blue chips into negative territory.

At close, the S&P/TSX was down 41.11 points or 0.41% at 9886.09, while the TSX Venture exchange added 2.52 points or 0.12% at 2040.29. In New York, the Dow industrial average dropped sharply in the last half-hour of trading, ending the day down 3.69 points or 0.03% at 10936.86, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq jumped 19.60 points or 0.95% at 2090.21, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index added 3.19 points or 0.26% to 1225.31.

The Canadian dollar was up, adding 0.09 of cent to US81.35.

On the TSX, energy shares led the market lower, slipping 1.53% despite oil prices edging higher Monday. April crude futures rallied back from an intraday low of US$52.91 to close up 11¢ to US$53.89 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Gold share were off, too — down 1.07% as a whole — despite gold prices increasing; they were up $1.50 to US$434.80 in London.

Financial stocks were up 0.17% but not nearly enough top offset gains by the energy and gold groups.

In New York, a report from the Federal Reserve showing that buyers increased their borrowing on credit cards, auto loans and other types of consumer debt at an annual rate of 6.6% in January, the fastest pace in three months, sent bluie chips lower after being up throughout the day. The 6.6% rate of increase in January compared to a 5% rise in December and was the fastest advance since consumer debt rose by 8.2% in October.

Until the report, the Dow had been paced by technology shares, although gains were kept in check by losses in Boeing Co. after the aerospace giant’s chief executive was forced out.

The Dow had climbed to its best level in nearly four years Friday. The Nasdaq, however, rallied with strategists saying the tech-heavy index was making up ground after lagging blue chips thus far this year.