TORONTO -- A new report suggests nearly half of Canadian homeowners intend to buy a property in the next five years, despite a cooling off in the housing market.

Retail sales stayed flat at $39.5 billion in March, as sales increased in volume terms despite lower prices for gasoline. Statistics Canada said in volume terms, retail sales were up 0.7 per cent.

Almost a third of Canadian households report never or almost never having any money left to save after paying their bills, according to a new study issued Wednesday.

Listed below are some of the stocks we'll be keeping an eye on in Wednesday's trading session. Sears Canada Inc. posted a first-quarter loss of 31 Canadian cents a share and said revenue fell 6.6% and same-store sales declined 2.6%.

Zoocasa, an online service for home seekers, is aiming to win market share with rebates to buyers and sellers that will refund roughly 15 per cent of the commission they pay their real estate agents.

(Reuters) - Canada's main stock index looked set to open higher on Wednesday on hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve will continue with its monetary easing policy, ahead of the release of minutes of its May meeting and testimony from U.S.

The Canadian Boreal Forest agreement, CBFA, took yet another bizarre turn on Tuesday when one of its largest corporate signatories, Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products, withdrew, citing �unbalanced� demands from environmental NGOs.

The Federal Court of Canada has dismissed a challenge by two unions over a Vancouver-based company's hiring of 201 temporary foreign workers from China for a coal project in northern British Columbia.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) rail cars spilled 545 barrels of crude oil near Jansen, Saskatchewan, in the company's third and largest oil spill in as many months.

Canada's banking regulator Julie Dickson says that her agency is a dark place, and that gives her comfort as she prepares to enter her final year on the job.