Housing starts slow
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in January slowed compared with December.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in January slowed compared with December.
Subaru, Tesla, BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler Vans, Mercedes and Ferrari are recalling about 1.7 million vehicles to replace potentially deadly air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. of Japan.
Unifor says workers at an autoparts supplier in Whitby, Ont. have walked off the job in solidarity with the union’s campaign to save the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont.
U.S. stock indexes stemmed an early slide Friday, finishing mostly higher and nudging the benchmark S&P 500 index to its second weekly gain in a row.
European Union officials have slashed their growth forecast for the 19 countries that use the euro, saying even the reduced forecast was vulnerable to “large uncertainty” from slowing growth in China and weakening global trade.
Twitter is reporting that revenue and profit and its daily user base all grew in the final three months of 2018.
Flybe has warned shareholders it will wind up the company if they do not back a sale to a consortium led by Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Air.
Renewed pessimism about the strength of the global economy and corporate profits this year led to sharp losses on Wall Street Thursday.
UK jobs are attracting less interest from other European workers, figures released by some of the world’s largest job search engines suggest.
Automaker Daimler says its fourth-quarter net profit fell 49 percent to 1.64 billion euros ($1.87 billion) as the Mercedes-Benz luxury car business was buffeted by diesel woes and global trade conflict.