National Business

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (16,162.96 , down 20.70 points.) Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY). Financials. Up 76 cents, or 0.80 per cent, to $95.70 on 10.

NEW YORK — Not only can President Donald Trump's niece Mary sell books, she can draw a crowd on television. Her one-hour interview with Rachel Maddow last Thursday reached 5.

TORONTO — Wattpad Corp. is providing more details about what data hackers might have gotten their hands on during a potential breach of the online storytelling platform.

Retail sales are on pace to recover from the COVID-19 shutdowns after surging nearly 19 per cent in May with even larger gains expected in June, says Statistics Canada. The agency says retail sales increased to $41.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Production at the Hibernia offshore production platform 315 kilometres east of St. John’s, N.L., has been halted after an apparent spill of drilling and production fluids.

Coca-Cola's revenue plunged 28% in the second quarter, but the company thinks the worst could be behind it. Coke Chairman and CEO James Quincey said sales improved sequentially in May, June and July despite surging cases in key markets like the U.S.

Federal safety regulators are moving closer to letting the grounded Boeing 737 Max fly again with changes that Boeing made to the plane after two deadly crashes.

CALGARY — Oil production is beginning to recover after it was curtailed by an average of 30 per cent in the second quarter due to low crude prices, PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. said Tuesday.

Prices of newly built homes climbed higher in June as Toronto-area home-buyers fled the city in favour of wine country.

TORONTO — Iamgold Corp. says it is going ahead with its US$1.3-billion Cote Gold mine in northern Ontario as world gold prices reached nine-year highs over US$1,830 per ounce.