Toronto stocks closed mixed on Wednesday, as technology shares gained while the energy and mining shares stalled.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 6.50 points, or 0.05%, at 11,952.14 after breaking the 12,000 mark earlier in the session.

Six of the 10 main TSX groups lost ground.

The information technology group was by far the biggest gainer of the day, with a 4.74% jump.

Nortel rose 25¢, or 7.33%, to $3.66 after it announced a joint-venture with China’s largest telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies.

Shares in Research In Motion (jumped $6.75, or 8.74%, to $84 after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sided with the BlackBerry portable e-mail device maker by issuing a non-final rejection of a fifth patent at the center of its legal battle with patent holding company NTP Inc.

The TSX energy group dropped 0.29% as U.S. crude oil prices ended down $1.36, at US$66.56 a barrel.

The junior S&P/TSX Venture composite index added 8.27 points, or 0.32%, to finish at 2,564.13.

In New York, U.S. stocks rallied on as a stronger-than-expected profit from aerospace company Boeing Co. the drop in oil prices offset Google Inc.’s disappointing earnings.

Shares of Boeing, a Dow component, climbed 4.9% to US$71.62 on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Dow Jones industrial average was up 89.09 points, or 0.82%, at 10,953.95.

The S&P 500 was up 2.38 points, or 0.19%, at 1,282.46. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index was up 4.74 points, or 0.21%, at 2,310.56.