Corporate governance - Vigil

Beijing asks industry executives if proposed restrictions will harm western contractors

Private equity giant Cerberus Capital Management and the controlling shareholders of Dorel Industries Inc. are abandoning their effort to take the Canadian consumer products company private following what appears to be insurmountable opposition to the idea from shareholders.

Riding a global surge in pandemic-related e-commerce traffic, Shopify – which makes the software used by more than a million merchants to sell their products online – surpassed Royal Bank of Canada to become Canada’s most valuable company.

France’s largest bank BNP Paribas pledged on Monday to stop financing firms producing or buying either beef or soybeans cultivated on land in the Amazon cleared or converted after 2008.

But greening the power grid was the easy bit. Heating and transport will be harder

European banks are using the pandemic to make changes investors have wanted for years: slash jobs, shut branches and force customers online.

More executives are flying in business jets than before Covid-19, which could eventually reshape trends in small-aircraft manufacturing

LVMH founder Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier are creating a special purpose acquisition vehicle to invest in European financial companies, joining the $100bn Spac boom.

Le Bureau du coroner commencera lundi l’une des plus importantes enquêtes publiques dont il a jamais été chargé. Les morts survenues pendant la première vague de la pandémie de COVID-19 au CHSLD Herron, à Dorval, seront au cœur de cette analyse, mais aussi celles de six autres milieux d’hébergement. Le but ? Protéger les aînés et éviter d’autres décès dans leurs résidences.

Shareholders’ suit citing internal Boeing documents alleges board didn’t act as fast on safety as CEO David Calhoun said

At its initial public offering on February 5, Sustainable Development Acquisition I Corp. (SDAC) became the first public benefit corporation Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC).

Japan's economy surged in the fourth quarter of 2020, but it was not enough to keep the country from negative growth for the year.

The Canadian economy is getting a timely assist this winter from a broad-based upswing in commodity prices, helping to soften the blow from the second wave of COVID-19 and spurring talk of another “super cycle” in key resources.

SNC-Lavalin will offer engineering services for three hydroelectric projects in Pennsylvania, and would add powerhouses to sites owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Telus has the look of a company built for the post-pandemic future

Covid-19 has brought international travel to a standstill. But it will recover and may even become a better experience, says Simon Wright

Profit dropped at both banks last year; Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat’s pay was reduced by 21%

Foreign-exchange markets have returned to their pre-pandemic placidity even as stock-market volatility remains elevated

Norway’s $1.3tn oil fund has finally revealed its position on gender equality as the world’s largest sovereign wealth investor said that all companies with less than 30 per cent female directors should consider having a target to boost the number.

The surging number of SPACs on the market coupled with participation by top institutional investors have made the process cost-efficient and credible.

Animosity between CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook erupts over privacy and dueling visions of internet