National Business

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose closer to their records and closed out their best week of the year as hopes built for a big rate cut next week. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% Friday to climb within 0.7% of its all-time high reached in July.

As the deadline approaches on a potential shutdown of Canada's largest airline, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's up to Air Canada and the union to reach a deal to avoid disrupting travellers and businesses.

TORONTO — Walmart workers at a Mississauga, Ont., warehouse have cleared a key hurdle in their fight to become the retailer's first unionized depot in Canada.

MONTREAL — The Canadian government on Friday announced a loan of $2.

Boar’s Head said Friday it’s closing the Virginia plant tied to a deadly listeria outbreak .

TORONTO — An arbitrator has awarded Ontario's doctors a nearly 10-per-cent compensation increase for the first year of their new Physician Services Agreement.

HALIFAX — An energy firm based in Ireland is planning build a plant in eastern Nova Scotia to produce sustainable aviation fuel using about 700,000 tonnes of wood biomass annually.

TORONTO — Roots Corp. may have built its brand on all things comfy and cosy, but its CEO says activewear is now "really becoming a core part" of the brand.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's central bank hiked interest rates to their highest since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine more than 2 1/2 years ago, a step aimed at combatting the inflation fuelled by massive government outlays for the military — and by r

SEATTLE (AP) — Aircraft assembly workers went on strike Friday at Boeing factories in Washington, Oregon and California after union members overwhelmingly rejected a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25% over four years.