Pot Stocks Take Markets Higher; Plus Beats for Cisco, Twitter, Lyft

 | Feb 09, 2021 06:00AM ET

Market indexes finished the day mixed, with none of the majors much above or below breakeven this Tuesday. While the Dow and S&P 500 dipped 0.03% and 0.11% at the close, respectively, the tech-heavy Nasdaq and small-cap Russell 2000 were up 0.14% and 0.34%, respectively. This amounts to brand new all-time closing highs for the latter two indexes, while the former two keep those record highs within view going into late trading.

Helping fuel growth in the Nasdaq today were the so-called “pot stocks,” as Canopy Questions or comments about this article and/or its author? Click here>>

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