Rail cars arrive in Milton, N.D., in February 2008, loaded with pipe for the first Keystone Pipeline project, which now carries crude oil across Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois.

Retail sales are sluggish, as debt-ridden shoppers hold out for bargains. Retail sales are rebounding smartly, as consumers snap up an increasing volume of domestic goods.

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SYDNEY�The Australian dollar's hefty monthlong decline continued Thursday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted the central bank might start winding back economic stimulus in the coming months.

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the loosening of fiscal and monetary policies in some countries may be increasing risks to the global economy.

Two Toronto-area developers offered up preliminary details of a new highrise planned to tower over all of downtown Winnipeg as the province's highest building.

(Reuters) - Department store chain Sears Canada Inc (SCC.TO: Quote) posted a loss in the first quarter compared with a profit last year, as demand for its home products and major appliances fell.

Mexican and Canadian stocks are returning the least in 14 years versus the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a break from a history of matching or beating the benchmark gauge since the countries formed a free-trade agreement in 1994.

Almost a year after the federal government's latest tightening of the rules for insured mortgages, the association that represents mortgage brokers has come out with a dire assessment of the effect of those changes.

With new management involved, work is set to begin on the much-anticipated and oft-delayed Capital Pointe condominium project in downtown Regina.