The S&P/TSX Composite Index of the largest companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange closed up 93 points to 16,671. That beats the previous all-time high the index hit last week, when it headed into the long weekend at 16,612. Stock markets gained even more south of the border, where the S&P 500 — an index of the 500 biggest public corporations in the U.S. — closed up 25 points to 29,33. That's up from the previous closing high of 2,925 it hit last October. The stock gained 16 per cent, buoying the entire tech space.

Source: CBC News April 23, 2019 20:03 UTC