National Business

TORONTO — North American stock markets had their best day in nearly three months to partially recover from steep losses on Wednesday. "It's been a roller-coaster, kind of mirror image," said Angelo Kourkafas, investment strategist at Edward Jones.

TORONTO — Canadian banks and trading platforms continued to face questions from customers Thursday amid a flurry of stock market activity both locally and worldwide. Toronto-listed BlackBerry shares dropped 40.

DALLAS — Just how bad was 2020 for the airline industry? The six biggest U.S. airlines lost $34 billion, and Southwest suffered its first full-year loss since Richard Nixon was president and gasoline sold for 36 cents a gallon.

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.