National Business

LONDON — Julian Assange: Hacker. Journalist.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 0.4 per cent to $58.6 billion in August, due to a drop in motor vehicle sales. Economists had expected a drop of 0.6 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon.

YouTube's video streaming service went out for more than an hour on Tuesday, apparently affecting locations around the world. YouTube acknowledged the outage in a tweet at 9:41 p.m. EDT, noting that it affected YouTube, YouTube Music and YouTube TV.

SINGAPORE — Stock markets stabilized Wednesday after a rally inspired by strong corporate earnings, with investors also monitoring talks on Britain's exit from the European Union. KEEPING SCORE: France's CAC 40 added 0.2 per cent to 5,183.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Councillors for the City of Kamloops took less than 10 seconds to unanimously approve British Columbia's first and only marijuana dispensary. The store to be run by the province in B.C.

SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix regained its stride with surprisingly strong subscriber growth in the third quarter, after an unexpected springtime stumble triggered fears that it was losing its allure.

ATLANTA — A former Equifax manager was sentenced Tuesday to serve eight months home confinement for engaging in insider trading in the wake of the company's massive data breach last year.

NEW YORK — Uber may put forth an initial public offering early next year that values the ride-hailing business at as much as $120 billion, according to a media report. The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday that Uber Technologies Inc.

DALLAS — Saudi Arabia's status as the biggest oil exporter gives it the power to jolt the global economy — if it wants.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart trimmed its profit outlook citing this year's $16 billion acquisition of the Indian online retailer Flipkart, its biggest deal ever. The company also said on Tuesday that U.S.