The first quarter ended on a largely positive note Wednesday. Canada’s economy expanded for a ninth-straight month, based on new January data, and impressing Bay Street. The TSX ticked up 0.13%, lifted by tech and materials while telcos and financials lagged.<\/p>\n
Big gainers including Lithium Americas<\/a> up 11.66%, West Fraser Timber<\/a> at 8.24%, Shopify<\/a> 4.75% and Park Lawn<\/a> at 11.25%. In contrast, Touchstone Exploration<\/a> slid 26.5%, Brookfield Asset Managment<\/a> slipped 2.43% and Blackberry<\/a> lost 10.53% after reporting a Q4 revenue drop. After recent gains, the prices of WTI and WCS crude gave back over 2%.<\/p>\n On Wall Street, the S&P made a new record high after climbing 0.37% to nearly 4,000 points. The Dow weakened by the closing bell and closed -0.25%, but the Nasdaq rallied 1.54%. For another session, the Nasdaq and the 10-year U.S. treasury yield both climbed, showing a breakdown in this counter-correlation. The 10-year increased by 1.68% to 1.7315%. Tech bounced back: Tesla<\/a> 5.08%, AMD<\/a> 3.29% and Facebook<\/a> 2.66%. Elsewhere, Applied Materials<\/a> gained 5.4%, Bionano Genomics<\/a> 4.66%. Financials and energy lagged as Marathon Oil<\/a> tumbled 2.73%. Also selling off were Kroger<\/a>, down 5.49%, and ViacomCBS<\/a> down 3.24%. After a day of trading were eagerly awaiting details of President Biden’s US$2-trillion infrastructure plan.<\/p>\n 🥈 Lithium Americas Corp<\/a> +11.66% The first quarter ended on a largely positive note Wednesday. Canada’s economy expanded for a ninth-straight month, based on new January data, and impressing Bay Street. The TSX ticked up 0.13%, lifted by tech and materials while telcos and financials […]<\/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-219256","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\/219256","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=219256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219256\/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=219256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n🌲 West Fraser Timber<\/a> +8.24%
\n🛍 Shopify Inc.<\/a> +4.75%
\n🏛 Park Lawn Corp<\/a> +11.25%
\n🛢 Touchstone Exploration Inc.<\/a> -26.5%
\n🏛 Brookfield Asset Management Inc.<\/a> -2.43%
\n📱 BlackBerry<\/a> -10.53%
\n🚗 Tesla Motors Inc<\/a> +5.08%
\n💾 Advanced Micro Devices<\/a> +3.29%
\n🕵️♂️ Facebook<\/a> +2.66%
\n🧬 Applied Materials<\/a> +5.4%
\n💉 Bionano Genomics<\/a> +4.66%
\n🛢 Marathon Oil<\/a> -2.73%
\n🛒 Kroger Co.<\/a> -5.49%
\n📺 ViacomCBS<\/a> -3.24%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"