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Record participation in a team-Canada trade mission to Japan has resulted in more than $1 billion in commercial investments signed between Canadian and Japanese companies.
Just two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in January he would allow limited electric-vehicle imports from China, that country’s biggest auto exporter, Chery, held its first meetings in Canada with car dealers.
Wealthy nations with the highest rate of immigration over the past 35 years reaped a large economic benefit and many could still absorb more workers, according to research to be presented at a top European Central Bank conference next week.
Canada’s economy is forecast to rebound toward the end of this year, bringing growth to 0.7 per cent for 2026 after weak activity in the first quarter, Deloitte Canada said in a summer outlook released Thursday.
World shares were mostly higher Thursday, led by tech-driven gains in Japan and South Korea as major computer chipmakers’ stocks surged following upbeat earnings reports from U.S. giants like Qualcomm and Micron Technology.
A new report has found that Ontario has the most high-net-worth families in Canada, with 44 per cent of the country’s billionaire families living in the province.
Most economists, including at the Bank of Canada, were a bit surprised when Statistics Canada reported late last month that the economy contracted slightly over the first three months of the year.
The Canadian dollar has steadily fallen over the past several weeks to trade around the 70 cents US mark as it finds itself caught between a weak domestic economy and strong demand for the U.S. dollar.
Commodities stocks weighed on Canada’s benchmark index, while tech stocks south of the border pulled Wall Street lower.
Stocks wavered to a mixed close on Wall Street as losses for several tech giants including Microsoft weighed on the market.
Live Nation’s chief executive spoke with Donald Trump less than a month before the ticketing and events giant reached a surprise antitrust settlement with the U.S. DOJ that consumer advocate groups have largely panned.
Shareholders of Activision Blizzard reached a US$250 million settlement over allegations that the company’s former executives and Microsoft shortchanged them when Microsoft acquired the game maker for $75.4 billion in 2023, according to a filing made public on Friday in a Delaware state court.
The tech giant Alibaba has sued the U.S. Department of Defense, demanding that it be removed from the Pentagon’s list of Chinese military companies.
The first global regulations for fully autonomous vehicles were adopted Wednesday, a UN agency said, establishing uniform international safety requirements that could pave the way for larger-scale rollouts of self-driving cars.
The Trump administration on Wednesday reached a multi-state settlement with chemical giant Chemours Co. over years-long, illegal discharges of synthetic 'forever chemicals' used to make products resistant to water, grease and stains.
Officials at the Bank of Canada were seemingly unfazed by economic weakness to start the year as they debated where to take the policy interest rate earlier this month.
