National Business

TORONTO — A recent share-price rally, then plunge, in typically sleepy companies such as GameStop has put a spotlight on a long-standing stock market practice called short selling.

OTTAWA — The federal government is naming the Tamara Vrooman, CEO of Vancouver's airport, as the new chair of its infrastructure financing agency that is about to embark on a push to aid the economy.

Increasing concerns over more infectious COVID-19 variants has led some to wonder whether our face masks need an upgrade. Should we layer two masks on top of each other, as politicians and spectators at the U.S.

WASHINGTON — The spread of COVID-19 vaccines will power a stronger global economic recovery in 2021, the International Monetary Fund forecast Tuesday. After sinking 3.5% in 2020, the worst year since World War II, the global economy will grow 5.

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General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that.

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc.'s isn't providing financial guidance for 2021 amid ongoing uncertainty about COVID-19, which had a big impact last year including its fourth-quarter results released Thursday.

CALGARY — Most of the hundreds of layoffs expected in the wake of Cenovus Energy Inc.'s takeover of rival Husky Energy Inc.

Seattle-based Amazon.com, Inc. has asked federal regulators to block multiple shareholder proposals addressing criticism of company stances on curbing hate speech, diversity in hiring, workplace conditions and surveillance technologies.

WASHINGTON — Stuck in the grip of a viral pandemic, the U.S. economy grew at a 4% annual rate in the final three months of 2020 and shrank last year by the largest amount in 74 years.