Bloomberg Acorda Therapeutics Inc rose the most since October after the US Food and Drug Administration approved its therapy for Parkinson’s disease. The drug, which will be sold under the name Inbrija, is an inhaled version of levodopa, an existing therapy that treats the effects of the neurodegenerative disorder. Acorda declined to say how it plans to price the product, ...

Bloomberg Alcoa Corp will further curtail production at a Canadian smelter as the biggest US aluminum producer faces a shortage of workers amid a dispute with unionised workers and the impact of US tariffs on shipments of the metal. The Pittsburgh-based company said it will curtail half of the one operating potline’s 138,000 metric tonne capacity at its majority-owned Aluminerie ...

Bloomberg Canadian gross domestic product grew at the fastest pace in five months on a lift from manufacturing, while oil made an unexpected contribution as prices began to fall for Alberta crude. Output grew 0.3 percent in October, Statistics Canada said from Ottawa, faster than the median forecast in a Bloomberg economist survey of 0.2 percent. Factory production expanded 0.7 ...