Corporate governance - Vigil

COVID-19 has most affected workers who were already vulnerable. Unless bold action is taken, the postpandemic recovery will further exacerbate inequality.

There is no routine testing or contact tracing of travellers entering Canada. Only self-identifying symptomatic air travellers testing positive are included in current data. Travellers by land and sea, along with air travellers who are infected but untested or asymptomatic, are not. And no data is being collected on inter-provincial travel beyond detected exposures on domestic flights.

One of Canada's biggest producers pushed into more than billion-dollar loss

The U.S. economy is expected to expand more rapidly in 2021 than officials projected in July, but it will take several years for output to reach its full potential and for the number of employed workers to return to its pre-pandemic peak, according to new economic projections released Monday.

Ride-hailing giant’s acquisition expands alcohol delivery options amid coronavirus pandemic

Aviva Investors said on Monday it could ditch its stock and bond holdings in 30 of the world’s biggest corporate emitters of carbon if their boards failed to take sufficient action over climate change.

The platform’s users are furious, and regulators and lawmakers are on its case

A consortium of some of Canada’s largest companies, representing 350,000 employees nationwide, has launched a rapid testing program aimed at reopening the country’s economy.

With Argentina broke, Finance Minister Martín Guzmán is pushing for a deal by May with the International Monetary Fund to repay $44 billion in debt. To win the IMF’s acquiescence, he’ll narrow a yawning budget gap, he said in an interview on Friday.

Chief Executive Michelle Gass shares steps she is taking to prevent staff burnout and steer the retailer through the global health crisis

Markets in the U.S. are going haywire, but since the economy is also in the tank, central bankers are hesitant to step in and spoil the fun. Not so in China. Markets there look bubbly too and the central bank isn’t amused.

Exxon’s Darren Woods, Chevron’s Mike Wirth spoke last year about combining their companies in what could be among the largest corporate mergers ever

From video campaigns to vaccine clinics with games and cake, companies deploy tactics to coax skeptical employees to get shots

After nearly a decade of growth, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP is selling Enwave, an urban energy-systems business, to several institutional investors, including Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

The company will seek to commercialize its carbon capture and storage technology, investing $3 billion through 2025

The eurozone’s economy is diverging sharply from the U.S. and China, as stubbornly high coronavirus infections, extensive Covid-19 restrictions and a painfully slow vaccine rollout delay Europe’s recovery from last year’s historic economic downturn.

Top US oil producer Exxon Mobil on Tuesday posted its first annual loss as a public company as the COVID-19 pandemic hammered energy prices and it reduced the value of its shale gas properties by more than $20 billion in the fourth quarter.

The large increase carries risks for jobs. But history suggests it could bring large rewards

U.S. is catching up but most countries are way behind; Britain alerted world to new variant

Sally Grimes, new CEO of the California snack bar maker, relies on some of the food industry’s most accomplished executives for advice on career challenges. She now faces her toughest test yet.

Slipping timetables for inoculation campaigns mean return to normal could get pushed back for many countries