Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is calling for a "soft landing" in the new housing market with starts expected to slow down this year and in 2008.

Crude oil was close to topping $60 US a barrel Monday as frigid weather boosted heating oil demand.

Simon Property Group and Farallon Capital offer $24 US in cash per share for Mills Corp., topping Brookfield Asset Management's bid of $21 US a share.

Hackers who stole customer information from the company that owns Winners and HomeSense did not access Canadian debit card transactions, an official said Saturday.

Celestica fired some of its top managers Friday, just days after it reported a big quarterly loss and its stock hit an all-time low.

The RRSP season appears to be off to a fast start, as mutual fund companies reported their best January sales figures in 10 years.

Videotron Ltd. is planning in 2007 to roll out a new high-speed internet service at least four times faster than current offerings.

Vancouver-based Telus says it has no plans to stop selling pornographic photos and videos to its cellphone customers, despite receiving more than 100 complaints since it started offering the adult content last month.

A decision in the long-running case of John Felderhof, the former chief geologist of Bre-X Minerals, will come down on July 31.

Microsoft Corp. is playing down reports that it is possible for an attacker to use the speech recognition function of its new Windows Vista operating system to execute commands on a personal computer.

Bombardier's rail division said Friday it has been selected to negotiate a $1.88 billion contract to supply electric trains to Deutsche Bahn AG of Germany.

The unemployment rate in the United States hit a four-month high of 4.6 per cent in January as employment grew by 111,000, which missed economists' expectations.

Cott Corp. said Friday it lost $29.6 million US in the fourth quarter as its revenue went flat and charges hit the soft drink maker's bottom line.

Canadian car dealers enjoyed their best January sales since 2003, but it was mainly the sellers of import brands that were seeing the sales jumps.

The next federal budget will not include income splitting for families, according to a news report.

Lower oil and natural gas prices pulled earnings lower in the fourth quarter at Imperial Oil Ltd., the company said Thursday.

The Conservative government's controversial changes to income trusts appear to "level the playing field" with corporations, Bank of Canada governor David Dodge said Thursday.

Ontario's minimum wage officially rose to $8 an hour Thursday, but the government warns not to expect another hike anytime soon.

Power Financial's Great-West Lifeco Inc. is making a major move into the United States with a $4.6-billion takeover offer for Putnam Investments Trust from Marsh & McLennan.

Shares of Dell Inc. gained Thursday as investors welcomed the return of Michael Dell to the CEO's office.