U.S. home construction fell 5.3 per cent in September, a sign that rising mortgage rates may be weighing on the market.

Bombardier Inc. announced Tuesday it is on track to meet its target for business aircraft deliveries for the year, as a lengthening order backlog points to growing demand for long-range planes.

Before there was Amazon — or, for that matter, Home Depot or Walmart or Kmart — there was Sears.

Internal government documents say more than one million jobs could be lost to the coming boom in automated vehicles, with ripple effects far beyond the likeliest professions.

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Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist who invested in conservation, space travel and professional sports, died Monday. He was 65.

More than one in five Canadian companies say they were impacted by a cyberattack last year, with businesses spending $14 billion on cybersecurity as they confront greater risks in the digital world, according to a new Statistics Canada survey.

LONDON – Britain’s banks and insurers must come up with credible plans for protecting themselves against risks from climate change and may need to hold more capital, the Bank of England said on Monday.

German prosecutors searched German sites of carmaker Opel, a division of PSA Group (PEUP.PA), in Ruesselsheim and Kaiserslautern on Monday as part of a probe into diesel exhaust emissions.

The German luxury carmaker Porsche has denied speculation that it’s planning to pursue an initial public offering (IPO).

Goldman Sachs and Raymond James have slashed their 12-month forecasts for Netflix on concern that rising interest rates will eat away at the valuation of the high-flying internet company, which reports earnings Tuesday after the bell.