Corporate governance - Vigil

Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least one popular solution might actually make the problem worse

ConocoPhillips is to buy Concho Resources in a deal worth $9.7bn, as one of the world’s largest independent oil producers gambles on a post-pandemic market recovery with a huge bet on US shale.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told the country to prepare for a no-deal Brexit and given his strongest signal yet that trade talks with the European Union won’t continue.

The central bank will discontinue its bankers acceptance facility before the end of the month and reduce the frequency of its extended term repo operations to bi-weekly, according to a statement Thursday. Policy makers also plan to end the Canada Mortgage Bond Purchase program.

This alternative to the traditional IPO is getting renewed attention. We take a look at what a SPAC IPO is and why it’s changing the future of the initial public offering.

It isn’t easy to find companies that are as progressive—or as transparent—as many investors would like

The number of new applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since late August, as persistent layoffs hold back the economic recovery.

Fashion retailer Aritzia Inc. has reopened all the stores it closed due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in March, *but ongoing related issues are blamed for* lower revenue and a net loss in its most recent fiscal quarter.

The IPO will compete for the title of Australia’s biggest float in 2020 with Macquarie Group’s potential listing of Nuix in a deal that would value the software provider at close to $1.5 billion.

Hudson’s Bay Co. is battling with two of its major landlords over the retailer’s failure to pay the rent during the novel coronavirus pandemic, alleging that one of them, Oxford Properties, is not doing enough to draw customers to its Quebec malls.

US tech giants are facing the threat of an EU attempt to break them up after France and the Netherlands jointly issued a call for the bloc’s competition authorities to take pre-emptive measures as they prepare sweeping legislation to curb the companies’ market power. 

Canada is experiencing a second wave of coronavirus cases as the provinces of Quebec and Ontario report the bulk of the country’s Covid-19 death toll, the Pan American Health Organization’s top health official warned Wednesday.

The e-commerce giant plans to double its stake in Sun Art Retail Group, which operates stores in China under the RT-Mart and Auchan brands

Charts and maps show paradoxes of a pandemic that has claimed a million lives

The challenge of clear, clean, conscientious investing

The airline has to figure out which planes to stash in the desert and which ones to park at airports without knowing when demand will recover.

PKP says it's far from certain that competition authorities in Europe and Canada will approve the purchase of Transat by Air Canada.

Emergency pandemic relief doubled the savings of unemployed Americans over the spring and summer, but most of that cushion was depleted by the end of August, new research shows.

Walt Disney Co. announced a major reorganization meant to give priority to its streaming-video services and ensure they get a steady flow of the company’s best content, in a shift echoing similar moves by other entertainment giants.

Canadian pot producer Aphria Inc on Thursday missed estimates for quarterly revenue as reduced in-person visits to physicians and pharmacies due to COVID-19 curbs in Germany hit its distribution business, which accounts for half of total sales.

Royal Bank of Canada announced the launch of its first artificially intelligent computer program for trading stocks on Wednesday, bringing the bank’s expanding focus on AI to a key part of its capital markets operation.

The United States has offered to settle a long-running aircraft subsidy dispute with the European Union and remove tariffs on wine, whisky and other products if Airbus repays billions of dollars in aid to European governments, several sources close to the matter told Reuters.