Canada's commodity-heavy main stock index rose on Friday to its highest closing level in more than two weeks as encouraging economic data from major energy importer China allayed fears of a global economic slowdown.
expanded at the fastest pace in six months in February as the removal of tough COVID-19 restrictions revived customer demand.
"China was closed for months and just improving economic data gives buyers of commodity stocks confidence that those prices can hold, and as we know it is a good chunk of the TSX index," said Barry Schwartz, portfolio manager at Baskin Financial Services.
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