National Business

GENEVA — World Trade Organization member countries on Friday trimmed a list of candidates vying to become the next director-general from eight to five.

LONDON — It’s the September fashion week season, and in any other year London would be abuzz with fashionistas zipping across town in Mercedes Benzes, hobnobbing with celebrities at glittering catwalk shows before sipping champagne at late-night part

TORONTO — When Amar Atwal discovered his wife would be teaching kindergarten remotely this fall while his daughter entered Grade 1 from home, he trawled through every furniture and office supply website he could find in search of a desk.

Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: CMHC report Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. will release its third-quarter housing market assessment report on Monday.

NEW YORK — Macmillan's longtime CEO, John Sargent, will be leaving at the end of the year, forced out by what parent company Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is calling “a disagreement regarding the direction of Macmillan.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,246.72, down 48.94 points.) Zenabis Global Inc. (TSX:ZENA). Health care. Down 2.5 cents, or 26.

TORONTO — North American stock markets fell Thursday on technology sector weakness and concerns about the likelihood of more U.S. stimulus and slowly falling jobless claims. The S&;P/TSX composite index closed down 48.94 points to 16,246.72.

TORONTO — Nearly one in four customers of the major credit-card companies were unable to make monthly payments this spring, according to a survey released on Thursday by J.D. Power. J.D.

VANCOUVER — Itasca Capital Ltd. says it will add businessmen Paul Rivett and Rick Doman to its board of directors to help pursue additional lumber investments after buying a Kenora sawmill and related assets for $11.5 million.

CALGARY — Both sides are welcoming an Alberta Court of Appeal ruling that supports a trial judge decision in favour of Dow Chemical Canada over Nova Chemicals Corp. but orders a recalculation of its award of $1.4 billion in damages.