Corporate governance - Vigil

German inflation rose to 2.4 per cent in May, its highest rate in more than two years, in a move likely to intensify debate about whether Europe’s ultra-loose monetary policy could cause the region’s largest economy to overheat.

Not a day goes by without companies being pressured to take a stance in political debates. Long gone are the days when chief executives could echo the economist Milton Friedman in saying the only social responsibility of business was to increase its profits.

DoorDash Inc.’s and Uber Eats’ ambitions are bigger than your lunch. They are after a whole new category of logistics and are increasingly billing their specialty not as food but as speed and convenience. Companies say that so-called next-hour commerce—which includes delivering everything from drugstore staples and alcohol to pet food on demand—is the prize that could sustain their growth and eventually help them turn a profit.

Japanese financial regulators will revise the Tokyo Stock Exchange's corporate governance code in June to include a provision requiring listed companies to "respect human rights."

Early this year, leaders of Exxon Mobil, the vast oil company descended from the Standard Oil empire, found themselves in an unusual situation: defending the oil giant against a tiny activist investor calling for a major shake-up in the name of climate change. Even more unusually, they were on the back foot.

Delivery-app companies try to cook up secret sauce for profitability; Grubhub calls transporting food from restaurants a ‘crummy business’

The plane maker paused deliveries as FAA requests more information about Boeing’s plans to address previously disclosed production problems

Some lessons from the 1970s

La frénésie de l’immobilier n’a rien d’une illusion. Le graphique ci-bas montre que la forte augmentation de l’indice des prix des propriétés a cours depuis le milieu des années des années 2000 dans la région métropolitaine de Montréal, mais que cette augmentation est vertigineuse depuis deux ans (courbe bleue pâle). 

That is both a radical change and an enormously important one

Major international financial services companies have been warming to cryptocurrencies in recent months, but Canada’s big banks do not appear likely to join them any time soon.

HSBC has sold its US retail banking network, effectively bringing to a close its struggling North America business after a 40-year attempt to run a full-service bank in the country.

The EU is already a leading regulator on the tech front, but the bloc feels that its rulebook needs to be updated so it can better deal with the growing power of some of the largest tech firms in the world.

China will allow couples to have three children, loosening its historic family planning policies in the face of a looming demographic crisis just weeks after reporting that its population grew at the slowest rate in decades.

An influential group of UK investors are urging G7 leaders to follow the UK’s lead by forcing firms to come clean about their exposure to climate risks.

The labor-market recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and related shutdowns is playing out unevenly across the U.S., from states where there are five openings for every unemployed worker to several where historically high jobless rates persist.

The global economy is expected to recover from the coronavirus pandemic faster than expected this year, as vaccinations in advanced economies and an enormous fiscal stimulus package in the United States unleash pent-up business activity and job creation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Monday.

Tech, banking and retail giants face numerous obstacles in their efforts to fix—and profit from—an industry that attracts $4 trillion annually

Delivery-app companies try to cook up secret sauce for profitability; Grubhub calls transporting food from restaurants a ‘crummy business’

Why are most firms are having such problems with their digital transformations? While many have realized that their future lies in digital, most have yet to grasp that a digital transformation requires deeper change than merely computerizing industrial era processes. The reality is that industrial-era management and digital-era leadership are two different worlds.

JD Logistics, a supply chain unit of JD.com, the big Chinese internet retailer, raised more than $3.1 billion in a share listing in Hong Kong on Friday, the latest Chinese company to raise money in a record-breaking year for the city’s stock exchange.

Deal could help company become top licensed producer in recreational market

The vague assertion that large tech firms are 'too big' or have 'too much market power' does not justify bespoke regulations or market restrictions for these new actors.

When it comes to logistics, Chinese tech giants take divergent routes