S&P/TSX composite up 70 points, U.S. markets mixed but keep Wednesday gains

Canada’s main stock index closed up around 70 points Thursday, with mixed results across sectors, while U.S. markets largely held on to the outsized gains they made the day before.

The S&P/TSX composite index was up 72.19 points at 20,525.45.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 194.76 points at 34,395.01. The S&P 500 index was down 3.54 points at 4,076.57, while the Nasdaq composite was up 14.45 points at 11,482.45.

The Canadian dollar traded for 74.44 cents US compared with 74.03 cents US on Wednesday.

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