National Business

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to more records following a trade deal between the world’s No. 1 and No. 4 economies. The S&P 500 climbed 0.8% Wednesday, setting another all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.

CHARLOTTETOWN — A fire on a ferry in Prince Edward Island in 2022 that forced an emergency evacuation has led Canada's transportation safety board to launch a national investigation into ship fires and the responses to them.

The Chief of the Songhees Nation on Vancouver Island says a group of mobile home park residents on the Nation's reserve are continuing to resist being evicted after losing a court challenge, while the Nation's members live in "unsafe housing, unable

TORONTO — TD Bank Group says it is moving to require employees be in the office four days a week, adding to the number of banks doing so.

The parent company of 7-Eleven has pushed back against the reasons Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. gave for why a takeover deal never materialized. Couche-Tard said last week that it was ending a yearlong effort to buy Seven & i Holdings Co. Ltd.

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. hopes to find "revenue and cost synergies" in its expanded portfolio of sports assets after becoming the majority owner of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment.

TORONTO — Scotiabank says it expects its holdings in U.S. bank KeyCorp to add about $61 million in income to its third-quarter results.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slid in June to the slowest pace since last September as mortgage rates remained elevated and national median sales prices hit unprecedented levels. Existing home sales fell 2.

OTTAWA — University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track.

Wedad Bishara says she's seen more clients interested in exploring Canada this year than in her three previous decades as a travel agent. Based in Vancouver, B.C., Bishara said U.S.