India, Jan. 30 -- The Canadian market climbed to a record high on Thursday, lifted by strong gains in technology and materials sectors. While encouraging earnings from a few big name U.S. tech companies triggered heavy buying in the tech space, firm metal prices pushed up materials shares.
Healthcare, utilities, real estate and industrials stocks were the other major gainers.
Investors digested U.S. and European economic data, and the European Central Bank's monetary policy announcement.
The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index ended with a solid gain of 334.95 points or 1.31% at 25,808.25. The index scaled a fresh record high of 25,875.61 in the session.
The Information Technology Capped index climbed 3.45%. Celestica Inc (CLS.TO) soared ...