Toronto stocks closed lower Tuesday, as a drop in the energy sector saw the Canadian senior market give back some of the advances made in the last three sessions.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 65.90, or 0.68%, at 9607.30.

Volume on the last day of May was 242,775.00 shares.

Eight of the 10 TSX main indices fell, paced by the energy sector, which fell 1.98%, and the materials sector, which fell 0.74%.

Consumer discretionary, up 0.11%, and utilities, up 0.18, were the two positive results on the day.

Among financial stocks, Scotiabank shares rose by 6¢, or 0.15%, to close at 39.75. Earlier in the day, the company reported its second quarter profits, which rose to $826 million from $784 million, an increase of 5%. The bank also raised its quarterly dividend 2¢ to 34¢ a common share.

The junior S&P/TSX Venture composite index finished up 4.47, or 0.27%, at 1,650.38.

The Canadian dollar closed up 0.06 of a cent at US79.67¢.

Statistics Canada reported the economy grew 0.6 per cent in the first quarter, up from the previous quarter, and that the nation’s annualized growth rate stood at 2.3%.

In New York, all three major indices ended lower.

The Dow Jones industrial average shed 75.07 points, or 0.71%, to 10,467.48.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 7.51 points, or 0.36%, to 2,068.22, while the broader S&P 500 slipped 7.28 points, or 0.61%, to 1,191.50.