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TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (14,288.16, up 348.10 points.) StageZero Life Sciences Ltd. (TSX:SZLS). Health care. Unchanged at 13.5 cents on 25.9 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index moved up midweek as the price of oil regained some of the ground it lost in recent days and gold surged higher. The June futures contract bounced back Wednesday after plunging to a more than two-decade low.

In an April 16 article The Canadian Press erroneously misspelled Aleem Jiwa's name. The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON — The financial condition of the government’s two biggest benefit programs remains shaky, with Medicare expected to become insolvent in just six years, while Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits starting in 2035, the governm

TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. felt the first financial bite from the COVID-19 pandemic during the tail end of its first quarter and senior executives said Wednesday they expect conditions will get worse in months to come.

TORONTO — The Investment Funds Institute of Canada says fund holdings dropped by about 10 per cent in March from a month earlier, as investors worried about the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

VANCOUVER — A group of companies and its founders have been fined nearly $37 million by a B.C. Securities Commission panel that says they misled investors, conducted unregistered trading and illegally sold securities.

Calgary-based energy companies are continuing to reduce production, cut spending and trim costs as volatile oil prices remain stubbornly below profitable levels. Enerplus Corp.

Delta Air Lines, the biggest and most profitable U.S. airline, lost $534 million in the first quarter, a setback that will appear trivial when the full force of the pandemic is revealed in the current quarter.

TORONTO — The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says home sales were down 69 per cent in the first 17 days of April compared with a year ago as the COVID-19 outbreak put a chill on market activity.