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Markets on both sides of the border finished another positive week, fulled by stimulus hopes on Wall Street and rising oil prices on Bay Street. Both the S&P and Dow closed Friday around 0.85% and enjoyed their second straight week of gains. The Nasdaq finished Friday up 0.7%, but saw its third straight week of gains. In America this week, energy rose 4% and banks and tech stocks climbed 3%. However, small caps continue to outpace large caps as the Russell 2000<\/a> rallied 2.37%.<\/p>\n There was strong across the Dow components. In industrials, Caterpillar<\/a> climbed 4.34% while Visa<\/a> rallied 2.23% in financials. Consumer names were a little mixed as Home Depot<\/a> closed -1.55% for Friday and -5% for the week. Tech continued its run as Qualcomm<\/a> popped over 5%. Generally, both the Covid and re-opening stocks held onto recent gains, though some feel that the market is getting overbought. Vaccine progress and optimism over a stimulus bill continue to encourage buyers, even as Covid cases rise.<\/p>\n Friday’s biggest gainer was energy. The OPEC deal to gradually increase output in January pushed oil stocks higher. In America, energy shot up 5.43% and in Canada 5.7% which propelled the TSX to 10-month highs. The TSX Several oil stocks saw double-digit gains, including Secure Energy Service<\/a>, soaring 14.11%, while Suncor<\/a> jumped 7.44% as the most-traded stock. BlackBerry<\/a> continued to rise, popping 13.23%, while in financials, Manulife<\/a> rallied nearly 3%, both in heavy trading. The Canadian dollar continued to creep up, hitting 78.27 cents against the American greenback by the close.<\/p>\n 💹 iShares Russell 2000 ETF<\/a> +2.37% This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Brian Acker,\u00a0including Exxon Mobil (A Top Pick Feb 08\/19, Down 4%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. Markets on both sides of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":174836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No","cwp_rev_product_name":"","cwp_rev_product_image":"","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_options":[],"wppr_pros":[],"wppr_cons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n🏗 Caterpillar<\/a> +4.34%
\n🏛 Visa Inc.<\/a> +2.23%
\n🛠 Home Depot<\/a> -1.55%
\n💿 Qualcomm<\/a> +5%
\n🛢 Secure Energy Services<\/a> +14.11%
\n🛢 Suncor Energy Inc<\/a> +7.44%
\n📱 BlackBerry<\/a> +13.23%
\n🏛 Manulife Financial<\/a> +3%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"