National Business

OTTAWA — Canada Post reported a loss before tax of $407 million in its second quarter as its parcels business fell due to labour uncertainty.

The number of Canadians commuting to work rose for the fourth year in a row, a Statistics Canada report said Tuesday, as hybrid workers are increasingly spending more time in the workplace than at home.

Canada's tech job market has gone from boom to bust in a matter of years, a new study says.

The Bank of Nova Scotia's chief risk offer says it's a mixed picture for consumer health in Canada, with younger clientele experiencing the brunt of the financial strain but "green shoots" emerging elsewhere.

NEW YORK (AP) — Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump's agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global trade with tariffs.

Executives at BMO Financial Group say the economic outlook in Canada and the U.S. is becoming steadier, but the bank is still bracing for trade and geopolitical ups and downs in the months ahead.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ view of the U.S. economy declined modestly in August as anxiety over a weakening job market grew for the eighth straight month. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index ticked down by 1.

TORONTO — A group of Hudson's Bay landlords say a lender's desire to recoup cash is the only reason the shuttered department store is pursuing a plan to sell its leases to a B.C. billionaire.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's attempt to fire one of the seven governors of the Federal Reserve will likely end up in court and could more clearly define the limits of the president's legal powers over the traditionally independent insti

As soon as he turned 18, Matthew Robertson set up a tax-free savings account, downloaded personal finance apps on his phone and started listening to podcasts to plug himself into the stock market.