National Business

TORONTO — Magna International Inc. reported its third-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago and cut its outlook for its full year as auto production around the world fell due the shortage of semiconductor chips.

OTTAWA — A quick look at Canada's October employment (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.7 per cent (6.9) Employment rate: 61.0 per cent (60.9) Participation rate: 65.3 per cent (65.

OTTAWA — Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in October. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 13.9 per cent (13.1) _ Prince Edward Island 9.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in October. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

TORONTO — Manulife Financial Corp. is raising its dividend after a federal regulator lifted a ban on increases by the country's banks and insurance companies that was put in place in the early days of the pandemic.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday handed Russia at least a temporary victory in an appeal of what’s believed to be the world’s largest award in an arbitration case after former shareholders of bankrupted Russian oil gian

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer Inc.

Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday.

BURNABY, B.C. — Interfor Corp. says its net profit plunged in its latest quarter despite record production in which U.S. output offset decreases in British Columbia caused by wildfires. The Burnaby, B.C., company says it earned $65.6 million or $1.

GENEVA (AP) — A new project trumpeted by U.S. President Joe Biden in which companies underpin development of low-carbon technologies through their buying power amounts to a “big transformation,” U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Thursday.