{"id":106594,"date":"2026-01-24T07:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=106594"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:40:50","slug":"canada-stocks-hit-record-high-as-mining-and-tech-lead-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/canada-stocks-hit-record-high-as-mining-and-tech-lead-gains\/106594\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada stocks hit record high as mining and tech lead gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"336\">Canadian stocks rose on Friday, with the S&P\/TSX Composite closing up 0.43% at a new all-time high. Gains in materials, information technology, and energy sectors helped push the market higher.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"570\">Top performers included Capstone Mining, which jumped 8.78% to 15.37, hitting a five-year high. Aya Gold & Silver rose 6.42% to 27.03, reaching an all-time high, while Discovery Silver gained 6.40% to 11.64, also a five-year high.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"786\">The biggest losers were Bausch Health, down 11.03% to 8.07, NovaGold Resources falling 6.15% to 13.57, and Badger Infrastructure down 3.87% to 78.02. Overall, 566 stocks rose, 386 fell, and 82 remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"862\">Market volatility fell, with the S&P\/TSX 60 VIX dropping 1.71% to 14.97.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"1065\">In commodities, gold futures for February delivery rose 1.38% to $4,981.34 per troy ounce. Crude oil for March delivery gained 3.23% to $61.28 a barrel, and Brent crude rose 3.28% to $66.16 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1067\" data-end=\"1193\">Currency markets were mostly steady. CAD\/USD held at 0.73, CAD\/EUR was at 0.62, and the US Dollar Index fell 0.91% to 97.28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian stocks rose on Friday, with the S&P\/TSX Composite closing up 0.43% at a new all-time high. Gains in materials,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":106595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22330],"tags":[23459,33979],"class_list":["post-106594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada-markets","tag-canada-stocks","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}