Corporate governance - Vigil

The vaccine, developed by Medicago Inc., a Quebec biopharmaceutical company, has shown positive results in animal studies. But this is its first test in humans.

Spelling out the future path of policy would help

Wells Fargo & Co posted its first quarterly loss since the 2008 financial crash on Tuesday as the coronavirus crisis forced it to set aside $9.57 billion to cover potential loan losses and slash its dividend, derailing efforts to recover from a sales scandal.

Tesla Inc.’s shares are in the midst of a head-spinning rally that has made the electric-car maker more valuable than many of the titans of American industry.

Huawei, the Chinese telecoms company, is to be banned from supplying new equipment for the UK’s 5G mobile phone networks from December 31, in a big U-turn by Boris Johnson’s government.

After the financial crisis of the late 1990s, most Asian countries reformed their governance codes and regulations around management accountability and transparency. Despite this, the region has still experienced significant and high-profile corporate governance failures. Why?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the federal government is extending the emergency wage subsidy program to December of this year.

Several of Canada’s largest mutual fund companies are urging Ontario’s securities regulator to relax proposed rules that will allow them to continue to sell controversial mutual funds that charge investors early-withdrawal fees.

COVID-19 pandemic is not only affecting human health and well being; it has also disrupted businesses globally. The Covid-19 crisis has impacted business conduct and economy; with lockdown being followed globally newer innovative models of conducting business has evolved. The corporate leaders and board of directors have to take decisions on the restructuring of business models but at the same has to commit to the highest levels of Corporate Governance.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd co-founder Jack Ma has cut his stake in the company over the past year to 4.8 per cent from 6.2 per cent, cashing out around $8.2 billion at its current share price, the firm’s annual filing released on Friday showed.

Health-care-services provider’s deal with Churchill Capital Corp. III is valued at $11 billion, including debt

All-stock deal would create a combined company valued at around $68 billion

Statistics Canada says Canadians’ buying patterns changed so much during the COVID-19 pandemic that its measure of consumer inflation went a little wobbly.

JPMorgan Chase & Co beat Wall Street estimates for profit in the second quarter as trading revenue surged, while setting aside a record $10.5 billion to brace for rising defaults as the United States slides into one of the worst recessions in decades.

As share of GDP, deficit is on pace to be the largest since World War II

Les habitudes des consommateurs canadiens ont tellement changé pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 que la mesure de l’inflation de Statistique Canada est devenue moins fiable, laisse entendre une analyse dévoilée lundi.

One of the US investment industry’s top regulators has called for asset managers to provide clearer explanations of how environmental, social and governance metrics could affect the performance of ESG-labelled funds.

The global proxy firm wants American corporations to disclose the ethnicity of its board directors.

When Netflix went public in 2002, its chief talent officer at the time, Patty McCord, helped strip the company of formal time off, travel and expense policies. WSJ caught up with McCord to learn how this unconventional move helped shape Netflix culture.

Statistics Canada says Canadians’ buying patterns changed so much during the COVID-19 pandemic that its measure of consumer inflation went a little wobbly.

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said it would spend around $10-billion in India over the next five to seven years through equity investments and tie-ups, marking its biggest commitment to a key growth market.

A late bidding war for Torstar Corp. is over, after NordStar Capital LP raised its offer by 17.5 per cent to $60-million Saturday and locked up key shareholder support.

U.S. companies are rushing to hire chief diversity officers or elevate existing leaders to the position in the midst of pressure to address racial divisions and inequities within their organizations.