CANADA Shares-TSX rises as technology and utility shares shift larger

* TSX closes up 30.31 details, or .17%, at 17,623.88

* Details know-how shares rise .7%

TORONTO, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Canada’s major stock index rose on Thursday in a shortened trading session ahead of the Christmas holiday, with gains led by the engineering and utility sectors as a extended-awaited Brexit trade deal boosted trader sentiment.

* The Toronto Inventory Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index shut up 30.31 details, or .17%, at 17,623.88.

* The facts technological know-how team rose .7%, aided by a 1.7% advance in the shares of Shopify Inc, the stock with the biggest marketplace capitalization on the TSX.

* The biggest share gainers on the index were being TransAlta Corp and its greater part owned subsidiary TransAlta Renewables Inc, which jumped 4.9% and 6.5% respectively soon after the enterprise stated it was promoting U.S. and Canadian energy transmission assets for $439 million to its renewable electrical power subsidiary.

* The utilities sector finished up .7%, even though strength was just one of a few major sectors to near decreased, down .8%.

* U.S. crude oil futures have been up .4% at $48.30 a barrel.

* Britain clinched a slim Brexit trade deal with the European Union just 7 times before it exits a person of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most major world change because the reduction of empire.

* Domestically, the value of Canadian developing permits rose by 12.9% in November from Oct, easily beating analyst estimates of a 3.% get, Data Canada data showed. (Reporting by Fergal Smith Enhancing by Richard Chang)