Corporate governance - Vigil

Walker will retire at end of 2020 after holding the top job for 15 years

The U.S. Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals.

The result: China throws away 26 million tons of clothes every year, less than 1 per cent of which is reused or recycled, according to state news agency Xinhua.

Washington is increasingly hostile to Chinese firms. Not Wall Street

The advisory board is one area that is overlooked by many businesses but can be a game changer. According to BDC, 86% of businesses with an advisory board say it has a significant impact on their businesses.

The space-cloud initiative is targeting military and commercial customers and comes after Amazon announced its own space effort

It is time to rethink many of the basic principles of our economic model to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In any development of a cross-border digital currency, it is more important for the United States “to get it right than be first,” U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Monday.

The coronavirus pandemic has been a jarring setback for banks, driving up potential loan losses and eating into profits. But for Cameron Fowler, the timing has a silver lining.

Technology companies led by their founders have been the standout winners in share price performance and profit growth this year, beating companies led by other managers, according to a Reuters analysis.

Before building Salesforce into the multibillion-dollar cloud computing behemoth it is today, founder and CEO Marc Benioff experienced his share of ups and downs.

Result was lower than a 5.3% median forecast expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal

A better-than-expected acquisition has turned AltaGas Ltd. into that rare Calgary-based publicly traded company — a stock market darling, at least in the short term.

The European Union plans to remove Canada, Tunisia and Georgia from its list of countries whose residents should be allowed to visit the bloc amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to EU officials familiar with the matter.

Sweden has become the latest country to ban Chinese telecoms groups Huawei and ZTE from its 5G mobile networks as it took aim at what it labelled Beijing’s spying and “theft of technology”.

With the price of a barrel stuck around $40 and no recovery in sight, companies are combining to cut costs and ride out the pandemic.

Intel Corp. has reached a deal to sell its flash-memory manufacturing business to South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. for about $9 billion, in a move that would reorient the semiconductor giant away from an area of historical importance that has become increasingly challenged.

Canada’s monetary policy regime works fine, by most accounts, but it’s not as credible as it could be. For example, in 2016, Stephen Poloz’s Bank of Canada and Bill Morneau’s Finance Department, after very little public discussion, decided to re-up the existing approach and lock in the two-per-cent inflation target for another five years. It was akin to a budget speech at midnight.

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is making one of its largest investments in insurance by buying a 19.9-per-cent stake in American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. for at least US$750-million, after the Iowa-based provider of retirement annuities rejected a takeover bid from a pair of insurers.

The activist investor seeking to oust most of the board at Artis Real Estate Investment Trust says it has secured the support of the commercial landlord’s biggest shareholder.

An influential group of investors is urging UK regulators to make climate risk reporting mandatory for nearly 500 FTSE-listed firms.

It’s looking like a good year for stock market debuts in the U.S. and China, which are seeing big tech names like Palantir and Ant Group list their shares. So why is Europe falling behind?