stocks in toronto were up strongly in midday trading wednesday as consumer durables companies led broad gains and more than outweighed weakness in the technology services sector echoing gains in us stocks that were bolstered by a jump in consumerconfidence data the sptsx composite index was 13 higher at 1955365 and the bluechip sptsx 60 was up 12 at 118108 the big banks were each up with bank of montreal bank of nova scotia canadian imperial bank of commerce and royal bank of canada each gaining at least 1 shares of blackberry ltd were down 88 at c513 after the technology company swung to a fiscal thirdquarter loss and it forecast flat sales for cybersecurity software in the first half of 2023 as the sales cycle lengthens before that business can grow in the second half ivanhoe mines ltds shares were up 79 at c1076 after the company said it wasnt involved in an ongoing corruption case in congo against an individual shareholder in congo bantu mining sarl a company ivanhoe signed a tentative deal with in april 2021 for an earnin on three exploration permits ivanhoe said it never signed final agreements with cobamin and no payment was made under the proposed agreement