WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices soared 12.1 per cent in April from a year earlier, the biggest gain since February 2006, as more buyers competed for few...

International trade will be a key growth driver for the Canadian economy this year and next. However, the distribution of export growth in Canada's provinces is anything but even. Some are leading the charge, while others are steady at the national pace. Others are lagging behind, some quite seriously. What are the key factors influencing the different growth patterns?

Jitters about the economy's near-term future shroud the planet. The latest data aren't helping. But quietly, amid the gloom, there's a different story. Lending activity is beginning to improve.

Commodity prices are all down, right? Wrong! Commodity prices have scored high on the economic shock-talk scale in the past decade. Although prices a...

As of December, US housing starts are just shy of the million mark, up 37 per cent over December, 2011. In contrast, Canada's January starts plunged 20 per cent compared with year-ago data, eking out just 161,000 units. Are we headed for recession while the US economy recovers?

Housing markets are on a tear south of the border. Against expectations, US housing starts surged to 894,000 units in October, up 42 per cent over last year's number. Some believe this is the real thing, the leading edge of a true and sustainable recovery. Others aren't persuaded, convinced that this is just another flash in the pan. Their reasoning? No jobs, no housing recovery. Are they right?

OMAHA, Neb. - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that he was "dead wrong" with a prediction that the U.S. housing market would begin to...

The U.S. housing crash has lured some marijuana growers to move their operations south of the border, according to an internal RCMP report obtained by...