National Business

LONDON — Talks to end Britain's Brexit stalemate appeared deadlocked Friday, with neither Prime Minister Theresa May nor the main opposition leader shifting from their entrenched positions.

NEW YORK — A group of Sears creditors are challenging Chairman Eddie Lampert's hedge fund's winning $5.2 billion bid to buy the business in a bankruptcy auction and wants to air their grievances in court.

NEW YORK — The Latest on Sears bankruptcy auction (all times local): 5 p.m.

TSA officials say the rate of airport screeners missing work during the partial government shutdown has stabilized — but still at unusually high numbers — just before a three-day holiday weekend that is likely to bring bigger airport crowds.

WASHINGTON — Moving to protect the U.S.

CALGARY — Residential customers of Shaw Communications Inc. will likely see a price increase for their internet and television services, chief executive Brad Shaw said Thursday after the company's annual meeting in Calgary.

PARIS — One by one, European Union nations are spending millions, hiring thousands of workers and issuing emergency decrees to cope with the increasingly likely possibility that Britain will leave the bloc on March 29 without a plan.

NEW YORK — American Express swung to a fourth-quarter profit, the credit card company said Thursday, helped by a lower tax rate and more spending on the company's namesake credit cards. The New York-based company earned $2.01 billion, or $2.

CALGARY — The CEO of an Indigenous energy company says a project to transform oilsands bitumen into pucks for safer shipping to customers around the world will potentially create needed jobs in northern Alberta while helping to recycle plastic litter

Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (15,211.22, up 99.96 points ). Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Health care. Down $1.02, or 10.49 per cent, to $8.70 on 34 million shares.