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Record Covid cases, lockdowns, civil insurrection and high unemployment couldn’t stop markets for rallying in the first week of trading in 2021. Wall Street hit a grand slam Friday as all the major indices made record closes: the Dow up 0.18%, the S&P 0.55% and the Nasdaq 1.03%. The Nasdaq climbed 2.44% for the week, though that was nothing compared to Bitcoin, which soared 33% to $42,000 briefly, but dipped 1.5% by Friday’s close. Of course, the main driver was the Democratic Blue Wave which was confirmed Wednesday amid the ugly siege of Capitol Hill inflamed by Trump.<\/p>\n
On Friday, investors pushed up stocks in industrials\/infrastructure, financials, cannabis and green energy. Of the latter, Plug Power<\/a>, for example, shot up 13.65%. And Tesla<\/a> continued to rise, popping 7.84%. However, Hyundai soared on reports<\/a> that it was talking to Apple about collaborating on a self-driving e-car. The Korean car-maker rocketed 28.48% while Apple<\/a> increased 0.86% in heavy trading.<\/p>\n The TSX closed up 0.08% Friday, but finished the week 3.49% higher and above 18,000. Energy, in particular, climbed 10% for the week. Gold names like Yamana<\/a> and B2Gold<\/a> surrendered around 5.8% while Cenovus<\/a> slipped 3% as the most-traded stock. BlackBerry<\/a> shone, up 6.37%, Shopify<\/a> rose 3.12%, and Cineplex<\/a> rallied 3.63% after an analyst upgrade. Green energy continued to ride the Blue Wave as Boralex<\/a> leapt 5.55%.<\/p>\n 🔋 Plug Power Inc<\/a> +13.65% This week, you missed Past Top Picks comments by Brian Madden, including Bank of Nova Scotia (A Top Pick Jan 09\/19, Up 8%) Get Premium to receive all past top picks opinions a few hours before market open. Record Covid […]<\/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-206560","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\/206560","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=206560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206560\/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=206560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n🚗 Tesla Motors Inc<\/a> +7.84%
\n🚙 Hyundai 28.48%
\n🍎 Apple<\/a> +0.86%
\n🥇 Yamana Gold Inc.<\/a> -5.8%
\n🥇 B2Gold Corp<\/a> -5.8%
\n🛢 Cenovus Energy<\/a> -3%
\n📱 BlackBerry<\/a> +6.37%
\n🛍 Shopify Inc.<\/a> +3.12%
\n🎞 Cineplex Inc<\/a> +3.63%
\n♻ Boralex Inc.<\/a> +5.55%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"