National Business

MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. shares fell after the engineering firm missed expectations despite swinging to a profit in its third quarter, boosted by the sale of its oil and gas business. The Montreal-based firm's shares lost $2.25 or 6.

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd.'s chief executive lauded "what a difference a year makes" as the Calgary-based company reported its highest third-quarter production in more than 30 years against a backdrop of surging oil prices.

TORONTO — Materials and financials pushed Canada's main stock index lower to end the week but the Toronto market rebounded strongly in October from a weak start to fall. Friday started on the wrong foot after two of the largest U.S.

OTTAWA — The Canadian economy appears to have rebounded in the third quarter after it stumbled and contracted during the preceding three-month stretch.. Statistics Canada's initial estimate suggests the economy grew at an annual rate of 1.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.

VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says commercial real estate sales remained strong through the second quarter of this year, reaching levels not seen since 2017.

WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers slowed their spending to a gain of just 0.6% in September, a cautionary sign for an economy that remains in the grip of a pandemic and a prolonged bout of high inflation.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors urged a judge Friday to order California lawyer Michael Avenatti to begin serving a 2 1/2-year prison term, more than a year after he was convicted of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike.

OTTAWA — The federal government ran a deficit of more than $57 billion over the first five months of its fiscal year, about $114 billion less than the treasury pumped out during the same stretch one year earlier.

NEW YORK (AP) — The fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on a movie set has put a microscope on an often-unseen corner of the film industry where critics say the pursuit of profit can lead to unsafe working conditions.