National Business

MONCTON, N.B. — Outdoor retailer Mountain Equipment Co. is opening a new store in New Brunswick this summer as it expands its brick-and-mortar presence on Canada's East Coast.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has extended the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by three months, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gershkovich, an American citizen, was ordered held until Aug. 30.

A new report shows B.C.'s share of investor-occupants sat at 9.6 per cent that year, much higher than in other provinces.

Nineteen-year-old Logan Robbins knows that learning to make a household budget is part of his journey to independence.

TORONTO — Dye & Durham Ltd. has signed a deal to buy South African legal software company GhostPractice Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

CALGARY — NuVista Energy Ltd. says it was able to restart most of its operations over the weekend as more favourable winds and weather helped ease the wildfire situation near its operations in Alberta.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy both said they had a productive debt ceiling discussion late Monday at the White House, but there was no agreement as negotiators strained to raise the nation's borrowing limit in

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Social media company TikTok Inc.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted to a mixed close as Wall Street waits to see whether a pivotal meeting later in the day will help the U.S. government avoid a potentially disastrous default on its debt. The S&P 500 closed little changed Monday.

LONDON (AP) — The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users' personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S.