By Adriano Marchese


Stocks in Toronto started the week slightly lower in midday trading Monday, with a mixed-bag performance among Canada's sectors. Of the gainers, commercial services advanced the most, followed more distantly by retail trade and industrial services. Health tech posted the largest decline, and process industries and materials followed with relatively minor losses.

At midday, Canada's S&P/TSX Composite Index was down 0.1% to 22237.54 and the blue-chip S&P/TSX 60 fell 0.1% to 1333.13.

Shares of Perpetua Resources rose nearly 23% to 7.95 Canadian dollars ($5.85) after it said that it could receive up to $1.8 billion in debt financing for its antimony project in Idaho through two U.S. federal initiatives.


Other market movers:

Aris Mining appointed Richard Orazietti as its next chief financial officer, who most recently was managing director on Jefferies' metals and mining investment banking team in New York. He is set to take on the new role effective May 16. Shares rose 1.4% to C$4.98.


Write to Adriano Marchese at adriano.marchese@wsj.com


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