National Business

TORONTO — A large majority of Canadians are reluctant to do business with companies that suffer a data breach, according to a new study released Monday by KPMG..

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada recorded 56,296 business closures in June, an improvement from May but still 44 per cent more than in February before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in force in Canada. The number of business closures in June was down 5.

WASHINGTON — The solid growth that the United States enjoyed before the viral pandemic paralyzed the economy this spring failed to reduce racial disparities in Americans' income and wealth from 2016 through 2019, according to a Federal Reserve report

CALGARY — Inter Pipeline Ltd.

Amazon.com Inc. will hire 3,500 Canadians to work in spaces it is opening and expanding in British Columbia and Ontario.

President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times.

Toronto's top public health official has ordered the closure of three downtown restaurants after contact-tracing showed some employees with COVID-19, Toronto Public Health said Saturday. Dr.

HALIFAX — Air traffic control company Nav Canada is closing its Halifax flight information centre as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to squeeze the global airline industry.

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine's lobster fishermen braced for a difficult summer this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but then the unexpected happened. They kept catching lobsters, and people kept buying them.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,065.35, up 153.09 points.) Just Energy Group Inc. (TSX:JE). Energy. Down 27.5 cents, or 37.16 per cent, to 46.5 cents on 30.