Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sign a slew of agreements covering energy, natural resources, education, science and technology, and agriculture during their meeting in Beijing.

Europe's air safety authority is calling for checks on the entire fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbo jets for cracks on parts inside the wings — extending a previous order to check nearly a third of the planes.

A new report says immigrants are struggling in the job market more than ever, but Ottawa could easily fix the problem.

In another blow to troubled Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, energy drilling giant Halliburton Co. says it will replace its company-issued BlackBerrys with competitor Apple's iPhone.

Partnerships are often a key ingredient to success in business. But when things turn bad, they ruin friendships as well as finances

A spokesman for Greece's private creditors says Greek Premier Lucas Papademos will soon tell eurozone finance ministers the contents of a deal to reduce the country's massive debt.

Wal-Mart says it will spend $750 million to add 4.6 million square feet of retail space and 14,000 jobs in Canada this year.

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s stock fell more than four per cent Tuesday after confirming that its Horizon oilsands mine is down for repairs.

The Competition Bureau should look into price differences between goods sold in Canada and the U.S., a consumer group is suggesting, with many items selling for 20 or 30 per cent higher north of the border.

Canadian banks are putting the pinch on some customers by charging higher and unexpected fees, along with tightening rules for lending, the CBC's Havard Gould reports.

The CAW and Caterpillar Inc. are negotiating a severance package for the nearly 500 unionized Electro-Motive employees who are out of work, with the union threatening a plant occupation as a 'last resort.'

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is standing firm on taking a voluntary approach with the food industry on trans fat, even though newly released documents show her department was ready to impose regulations in 2009.

The value of Canadian building permits issued in December totalled $6.8 billion in December, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday, up by 11.1 per cent from November.

Mining company Xstrata and commodities dealer Glencore agree to a $90 billion US merger that will create the world's fourth-largest natural resources company, including control of former Falconbridge operations in Sudbury, Ont.

BP PLC has raised its quarterly dividend by 14 percent after posting double-digit gains in profit and revenue in the last three months of 2011 despite further big payments to compensate for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Utah home former GOP presidential contender John Huntsman Jr.'s father built is on the block. This is no ski cabin. It's more like the whole chalet.

The architects of the joint state-federal mortgage releief plan believe it would be better for homeowners to get a partial deal than nothing at all, according to sources close to the talks.

Each week, TODAY real estate expert Barbara Corcoran looks around the U.S. to see what home buyers can get for their money.

NFL stars past and present are not exactly hurting when it comes to palatial digs big enough to host the neighbors Super Bowl Sunday. Which one of these guys would you like to score an invite from?

They say you can't take it with you when you die, but that's not necessarily true for the wealthiest Americans — like Donald Trump.

While building their home goods business, Richard and Victoria MacKenzie-Childs also repaired a 1790s farmhouse. Now the 42-acre, whimsical, property is for sale.

There was fresh data from the government Tuesday showing that the American dream of owning a home is fading fast.

One World Trade Center, the skyscraper that’s being constructed at New York City’s Ground Zero, may now be the most expensive new office tower in the world.