Canada's unemployment rate has risen to an 11-year high and the trade deficit to a record, government figures showed Friday. But despite the gloomy results, evidence suggests global trade flows will recover by the end of the year and lift Canada over...

Gold swept to a record high above US$1,080 per ounce on Tuesday, defying dollar strength as the International Monetary Fund's 200 tonne sale of gold to India's central bank boosted sentiment toward the metal.

With the Canadian economy shrinking severely in the first quarter, although not, according to Statistics Canada data released Monday, as deeply as initially feared, analysts are now talking about the road to recovery that could begin as early as the...

Nouriel Roubini, one of the few economists who accurately predicted the magnitude of the world's recent financial troubles, sees a "big risk" of a double-dip recession, according to an opinion piece posted on the Financial Times' website on Sunday.

Sales at U.S. retailers fell in September, but rose excluding motor vehicles for a second straight month in September, raising cautious optimism consumer spending could support the economic recovery.

William Hanley writes about Barack Obama's fall in U.S. popularity during his first year as U.S. president, and looks at some of the things Obama has done right, and some of the things that have gone wrong.

Buy two toys for each child on your Christmas list. Make a gift of one, and hide away the other toy unopened in its original box for 20 years. In 2029, give the now-grown child the second copy, which they can sell to a collector and use to buy a house...

Michael Nobrega, president and chief executive of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), says his pension plan has weathered the economic crisis. The bounce in equity markets and the strength of OMERS’ real-estate and infrastructure...

Dec. 31 is the deadline for making charitable donations that reduce 2009 personal income tax, but a recent tax case has cast a chill on some giving schemes, such as the "leveraged" donation tax shelter.

Canada Post needs to change quickly to avoid slinking into irrelevance.