Canada’s main stock index rose on Tuesday, driven by gains in energy shares on the back of a surge in oil prices. – At 9:33 a.m. ET (14:33 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 40.58 points, or 0.26 percent, at 15,609.43. – World stocks also advanced on optimism about U.S.-China trade talks and cheered Washington’s deal …

Asian shares gained on Tuesday as investors hoped a new round of U.S.-China trade talks would help to resolve a dispute that has dented global growth and some corporate earnings. Market sentiment also got a boost on news U.S. lawmakers had reached a tentative deal on border security funding that could help avert another partial government shutdown due to start …

When Tesla Inc announced last month a second round of job cuts to rein in costs, one crucial department was particularly badly hit. The automaker more than halved the division that delivers its electric vehicles to North American customers, two of the laid-off workers said. Some 150 employees out of a team of about 230 were let go in January …

The Bank of Canada looks set to leave interest rates unchanged next month despite bumper jobs numbers in January that far exceeded market expectations and highlighted the strength of the Canadian economy, analysts said. Statistics Canada reported on Friday that employers added 66,800 jobs in January, far better than the gain of 8,000 that analysts forecast in a Reuters poll, …

Uncertainty over U.S. trade policies is holding back Canadian business investment despite strong economic fundamentals, helping temporarily slow growth, a deputy governor of the Bank of Canada said on Wednesday. Timothy Lane also pointed to lower oil prices and a softening housing market as factors hindering growth, in contrast to the U.S. economy, which is powering ahead on the effects …

Canada’s main financial regulator is coming under increasing pressure from banks and mortgage industry lobbyists to ease a stress test designed to cut out risky lending, but the regulator is expected to hold off on changing the rules, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Proponents of a change say easing the terms of the test would …

TORONTO (Reuters) – The unlikely combination of freshwater fish and cannabis is producing outsized medical marijuana crops that Green Relief Inc aims to capitalize on, as the Canadian company plots a stock market listing and global expansion. In an underground southern Ontario facility surrounded by farmland, Green Relief operates a cutting-edge aquaponic farm, using filtered fish waste to fertilize cannabis …

(Reuters) – Following are five big themes likely to dominate the thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them. GONE TO THE DOGS Investors burnt in the 2018 stock market rout will be happy to put the Year of the Dog behind them. Instead, the end of the Chinese Lunar New Year …

TORONTO (Reuters) – Ron Joyce, Canadian businessman and co-founder of coffee and donut chain Tim Horton’s has died at the age of 88, according to a statement from the Joyce Family Foundation. Joyce, a former police constable, led the expansion of Tim Horton’s following his sole ownership of the company in 1975. Tim Horton’s, which became a unit of Restaurant …

TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian union representing auto workers at General Motors’ Oshawa, Ontario plant on Friday called on the U.S. automaker to extend production at the site to September 2020 and return to the negotiating table. GM said in November it would close the plant by the end of this year, affecting 2,973 assembly-line jobs, as part of a …