National Business

TORONTO — Around 16 years into Sridhar Ramaswamy’s career at Google, he realized he was having difficulty reconciling the actions of advertisers with the needs of consumers, and their differences were often creating a negative online experience.

When Kim Kardashian unveiled her beauty line SKKN with a Los Angeles mall pop-up in November, the world took note of her minimalist store, where concrete tissue boxes sold for US$89 and spheres of eye cream went for US$105.

TORONTO — Royal LePage is forecasting the aggregate price of a home in Canada will drop by one per cent to $765,171 by the fourth quarter of 2023.

The Bank of Canada expects to see a clear pullback in inflation by the spring, but it isn't taking any chances in its efforts to get the inflation rate back to two per cent, said governor Tiff Macklem on Monday.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (20,019.70, up 72.63): Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Energy. Up 97 cents, or 2.40 per cent, to $41.35 on 16 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was up slightly Monday, with gains in energy, industrials, technology and utilities, while U.S. markets posted stronger gains. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 72.63 points at 20,019.70. U.S.

NEW YORK — Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street at the start of a busy week where central banks are likely to unload the year’s final barrage of interest rate hikes. The S&P 500 rallied 1.4% Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November. R.J.

CALGARY — Spills from TC Energy Corp.'s Keystone pipeline have been increasing in severity in recent years, to the point that the pipeline's safety record is now worse than the U.S. average, U.S. government data shows.

TORONTO — Constellation Software Inc. says it will buy U.S. tech company WideOrbit Inc., merge the firm with its subsidiary Lumine Group and then spin them off into a separate business.