National Business

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index started the trading week higher even though the price of oil futures plunged for a second consecutive Monday.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford released a broad outline Monday of how — but not when — the province's economy will reopen, while predicting there will never be a complete return to the old way of life.

Porter Airlines is extending its suspension of all flights by another four weeks until June 29 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Toronto-based carrier stopped flying on March 21 as travel controls and rising public health concerns choked off demand.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Meat isn't going to disappear from supermarkets because of outbreaks of the coronavirus among workers at U.S. slaughterhouses.

LONDON — More than 4 million jobs have been saved in the U.K. as a result of a government scheme aimed at making sure firms hold onto staff during the coronavirus lockdown, Treasury chief Rishi Sunak said Monday.

TORONTO — Restaurants using Uber Eats in Ontario over the weekend say they experienced outages that left them unable to deliver meals to customers.

FRANKFURT — Deutsche Bank has reported that its net income fell to 66 million euros ($72 million) in the first quarter as the pandemic hurt its business.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has largely calmed turbulent financial markets. Yet a far tougher task remains: Helping rescue an economy and job market that appear to be free-falling into the worst catastrophe since the Great Depression.

VANCOUVER — Silvercorp Metals Inc. says it has struck a deal to buy Guyana Goldfields Inc. in a cash-and-shares transaction worth about $105 million.

MONTREAL — DavidsTea Inc. said Monday it faces the possibility of being delisted from the Nasdaq due to its low stock price as it provided an operational update amid the COVID-19 pandemic.