U.S. markets were closed Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King, but the TSX climbed 0.22% to close 52 points shy of 18,000. Energy sank 1.54% as the price of WCS slipped 0.5% and WCS plummeted 2.6%, but tech, real estate and financials helped lift the Toronto index.<\/p>\n
The day’s big gainer was Lithium Americas<\/a>, which soared 18.35% after U.S. regulators approved the company’s Nevada<\/a> mine. Blackberry<\/a> extended its rally by another 5.77% in heavy trading, as did Aphria<\/a> which climbed 3.79%. As mentioned, energy took a hit. For example, Suncor<\/a> closed -2.27% and Meg Energy<\/a> -5.96%.<\/p>\n Headlines drove some key TSX names. The French government has blocked Alimentation Couche-Tard’s takeover of Carrefour<\/a>. ATD’B<\/a> rose 1.11% in heavy trading, though is still way off plunging last week. Alcanna<\/a> is spinning out its cannabis retail business with YSS Corp. to create a new weed retailer. Alcanna<\/a> rocketed nearly 20%. It’s reported that incoming American president, Joe Biden, will block the Keystone<\/a> XL pipeline. Shares of TC Energy<\/a> sank 4.54%.<\/p>\n 🥈 Lithium Americas Corp<\/a> +18.35% U.S. markets were closed Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King, but the TSX climbed 0.22% to close 52 points shy of 18,000. Energy sank 1.54% as the price of WCS slipped 0.5% and WCS plummeted 2.6%, but tech, real estate […]<\/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-207891","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\/207891","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=207891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207891\/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=207891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n📱 BlackBerry<\/a> +5.77%
\n🌿 Aphria Inc<\/a> +3.79%
\n⚡ Suncor Energy Inc<\/a> -2.27%
\n⚡ MEG Energy Corp<\/a> -5.96%
\n🏪 Alimentation Couche-Tard (B)<\/a> +1.11%
\n🍾 Alcanna<\/a> +20%
\n⚡ TC Energy<\/a> -4.54%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"