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Employment was little changed for the month of June, with unemployment up slightly from May’s record lows.
The unemployment rate rose to 5.5 per cent compared with 5.4 per cent in May.
Citing jammed supply lines running into the city on the coldest winter days, utilities that service the New York City area said they couldn’t guarantee they’d be able to deliver gas to additional furnaces.
India’s rupee and Turkey’s lira offer a higher yield per unit of expected risk than any Group-of-10 currency or member of the JPMorgan Emerging Market Currency Index, according to a Bloomberg analysis.
Mark Carney has governed the central banks of both the U.K. and Canada, and helped set regulation for global finance.
MW CEO Harald Krueger is stepping down in the wake of the luxury automaker's weakest earnings performance in a decade.
Sales of crossovers and SUVs are slowing, while models are sitting longer on dealership lots before being sold and companies are resorting to more sales promotions to keep inventory from piling up, analysts say and industry data shows.
Saudi Arabia’s flyadeal Sunday said it would buy up to 50 Airbus A320neo planes, the direct rival to Boeing’s MAX that has been idled globally in the wake of two crashes within less than five months.
Campbell’s soup sales in the U.S. have fallen eight out of its past 10 fiscal years, according to its annual reports.
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it served an enforcement order preventing the companies from integrating their operations while the regulator considers launching a formal investigation.
Samsung said it expects operating profit to fall to 6.5 trillion South Korean won ($5.56 billion) from 14.87 trillion won a year earlier.
Evrnu, a Seattle-based textile-technology startup, is among a host of companies turning old clothes, blankets and other discarded fabrics into new fibers that can be used to make recyclable fabric for clothing.
Canada’s jobless rate edged up and the number of people employed was roughly unchanged in June following two straight months of stronger-than-anticipated gains.
U.S. employers added 224,000 jobs to payrolls in June, the Labor Department said Friday.
Ever since the world left the gold standard, a die-hard band of goldbugs has demanded the U.S. return. President Trump just said he intends to nominate one of them, Judy Shelton, to be a Federal Reserve governor.
The S&P/TSX composite index was down 96.48 points at 16,492.37 on Friday. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 145.36 points at 26,820.64.
The majority of American cellphone users are on a family plan: In the U.S., approximately 70% of postpaid cellphone plan customers surveyed by Cowen are on family plans.
The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers says residential sales hit 4,339 in June, a year-over-year increase of seven per cent.
The average price of a home increased 3 per cent from last June to $832,703 (Canadian).
Oxford Properties’ 4.3 million-square-foot site will have two office towers, 800 rental apartments, 200,000 square feet for retail and three acres devoted to public space
Canada is getting its first taste of co-living rentals in Ottawa, where a 24-storey tower, with communal apartments alongside regular rentals, will be built.
Demand is so strong and available homes so few that people shopped for properties impacted by flood waters without being able to enter them, says Royal LePage.
Average price for all types of housing hits $834K with sales up 19% year over year. Real estate board says lack of listings could favour sellers and drive prices higher
The introduction of edibles in such places as California and Colorado provides lessons for Canada, writes Jennifer Wells.
As the federal government dallies, investors and consumers are leading the way with “green” initiatives, writes Jennifer Wells.
Canada’s historic retailer is in desperate need of a turnaround that keeps its legacy in mind, writes Jennifer Wells.
No one can express how, exactly, the experimental development would serve the city’s needs, writes David Olive.
Netflix and other foreigners now spend more money creating Canadian content than homegrown networks, writes David Olive.
TMX will be Canada’s unhappiest megaproject since the James Bay hydroelectric project in the 1970s, writes David Olive.
Brace yourself for just how basic a basic economy fare is, as the low fares offered by the likes of Air Canada, Porter Airlines and WestJet restrict refunds and credits to the first 24 hours after booking, writes Ellen Roseman.
Between Parks Canada and Ontario Parks creating learn-to-camp programs and the advent of non-profit groups such as ParkBus, you no longer need access to a car and camping gear to escape the city and enjoy the great outdoors.
Hot locations are seeing prices soar because of short supply. Properties may be as unaffordable as Toronto.
It’s tempting to hoard points for a big-ticket item, or a dream vacation, but there are drawbacks to holding onto your loyalty points for too long, writes Robb Engen.
Many time-share owners are happy with a prepaid vacation for life, there are others who are desperate to escape a lifetime of financial obligations — and that urgency can make it hard to find the right time-share reseller, writes Ellen Roseman.
But financial pros advise weighing risks of the increasing loan terms of 84 months.
