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BANGKOK (AP) — The Chinese government plans to ensure that share prices will rise by ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stocks, to help jolt the markets out of the doldrums.

BANGKOK (AP) — The Chinese government plans to ensure that share prices will rise by ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in domestic stocks, to help jolt the markets out of the doldrums.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The longest strike in decades by Las Vegas hotel workers ended Wednesday with a ratified contract between the union and a casino where hundreds of employees had walked off the job in November.

REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he’s not straying from the Team Canada approach in responding to looming tariff threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The longest strike in decades by Las Vegas hotel workers ended Wednesday with a tentative contract between the union and a casino where hundreds of employees had walked off the job in November.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The longest strike in decades by Las Vegas hotel workers ended Wednesday with a tentative contract between the union and a casino where hundreds of employees had walked off the job in November.

A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc's push for clean energy and the new U.S.

TORONTO — A Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.' private real estate fund has bought a U.S. rent-to-own home platform and its portfolio of single family homes for about US$1 billion.

TORONTO — Strength in technology and industrial stocks helped Canada's main stock index move higher Wednesday, while U.S. stock markets also climbed, led by a 1.3 per cent gain for the Nasdaq. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 29.

TORONTO — One of Ontario's largest colleges is suspending dozens of programs in the latest round of cuts at post-secondary institutions as the federal government reduces the number of international students in Canada.