National Business

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The number of Americans signing contracts to buy homes rose for the second straight month after a devastating spring freeze brought on by the coronavirus outbreak.

NEW YORK — In a sign of how the pandemic is remaking Hollywood traditions, AMC Theatres and Universal Studios on Tuesday announced an agreement to shorten the exclusive theatrical window to just 17 days for the studio's films.

SASKATOON — Cameco Corp. missed earnings expectations as it lost $53 million in the second quarter despite a 35 per cent growth in revenues.

MONTREAL — CGI Inc. is reporting a softer fiscal third quarter with earnings dropping 16 per cent on lower revenues. The Montreal-based business and technology consulting firm says it earned $260.

WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in

OTTAWA — A new government report shows Canada's three biggest wireless carriers have lowered prices for a number of plans in Quebec since January but left them unchanged in all other provinces.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,121.32, down 40.01) Avcorp Industries Inc. (TSX:AVP). Industrials. Up 11 cents, or 366.67 per cent, to $0.14 on 23.03 million shares.

EDMONTON — Alberta municipalities that have been economically thrashed by the COVID-19 pandemic are receiving more than $1 billion in support from other levels of government.

TORONTO — Landlords need to be taken “out of the equation” of the government's small business rent relief plan as another month's rent comes due, says a lobby group.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's small- and medium-sized technology businesses are getting some financial help from the federal government.