National Business

NEW YORK — U.S. movie theatres have closed nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, turning dark nearly all of the country's 40,000-plus screens in an unprecedented shutdown.

WASHINGTON — U.S. industrial production rose last month for the first time since November as chillier weather kept utiliities busy and an uptick in auto production pushed manufacturing output higher.

FRANKFURT — Volkswagen said Tuesday it would close most of its European plants for two weeks due to uncertainty about demand for cars and supplies of parts amid the virus outbreak and said it wasn't possible to give a reliable outlook for this year's

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 0.2 per cent to $56.1 billion in January. The agency says it was the fifth consecutive monthly decline. Economists had expected a drop of 0.

SMITH FALLS, Ont. — Cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp. says it's closing all of its corporate-owned Tokyo Smoke and Tweed stores later today in an effort to help limit the spread of COVID-19.

CALGARY — TransAlta Corp. has acquired a cogeneration facility in Michigan from two private companies for approximately US$27 million. TransAlta chief executive Dawn Farrell says the deal marks the company's first U.S. cogeneration project.

NEW TRIPOLI, Pa.

The United States implemented dramatic new restrictions on Americans going out in public and 7 million people in the San Francisco area were put on a near-total lockdown to control the coronavirus emergency that has walloped the global economy.

NEW YORK — Bars and restaurants will become takeout-only and businesses from movie theatres and casinos to gyms and beyond will be shuttered Monday night throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut because of the coronavirus, the states' governor

SAN FRANCISCO — Officials in seven San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a sweeping shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting about 7 million people, ordering residents to stay at home and go outside only for food, medicine and outings that are abso