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TORONTO — BDC has announced the launch of Thrive Venture Fund and Lab for Women, a $500-million investment platform that will support the growth and economic impact of Canadian women-led businesses, as women continue to face an uphill battle when try

TORONTO — A U.K. regulator has assessed a penalty of 50 million pounds against Link Group, the Australian company that Dye & Durham Ltd. is trying to acquire, raising questions about the future of the deal.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in August for the seventh month in a row, as sharply higher mortgage rates and rising prices made homebuying less affordable, further cooling the once red-hot housing market.

VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. is cutting its steelmaking coal sales guidance after an equipment failure at its Elkview operation in B.C. and a strike at Westshore Terminals.

BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Wednesday that it has agreed to nationalize the country's biggest gas importing company, Uniper, expanding state intervention in the industry to prevent an energy shortage resulting from Russia's war in Ukrain

Aurora Cannabis Inc. says it could take a revenue hit of up to $3 million because of a cyberattack that downed Ontario's pot distributor and a strike that halted deliveries to B.C. marijuana stores.

CALGARY — Even as a growing number of activists urge financial institutions to take action against climate change by reducing funding to the fossil fuel sector, executives with Canada’s largest bank say this country won’t reach its net-zero goals wit

Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,368.69, down 193.69 points) Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX). Materials. Down 43 cents, or 2.09 per cent, to $20.12 on 11.3 million shares.

OTTAWA — Bank of Canada deputy governor Paul Beaudry said in hindsight, governments and central banks should have withdrawn stimulus measures earlier as economies recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, which likely would have kept a lid on inflation.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index closed down almost one per cent in broad-based declines Tuesday, similar to losses in U.S. stock markets a day ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest rate decision.