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We can make masks, we can make ventilators, but we can’t make many of the drugs needed to treat COVID-19. Naomi Powell looks at a problem not easily solved
Canopy Growth Corp. is making significant cuts just a month after the cannabis company slashed its workforce and took multi-million-dollar writedowns.
Canada’s deployment of 5G technology could be delayed because of waning consumer demand, smaller telecom budgets and the growing popularity of conspiracy theories linking the wireless networks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their estimates show the benefits of social distancing exceed the costs, but they will need to delve deeper
This bulletin addresses what the boards of charities and not-for-profit organizations incorporated federally or in Ontario should be doing during the COVID-19 crisis.
Most activist shareholders have refrained from challenging the boards of U.S. companies during this season of annual shareholder meetings, as businesses reel from the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak.
Not Starboard Value LP.
Amid the ongoing push for standardized, comparable and decision-useful ESG disclosures, regulators in the United Kingdom and the European Union have proposed additional disclosures and benchmarks to promote sustainable economic activity.
World’s biggest fund manager still garners inflows, but investors move to cash and ETF units
Canada’s telecommunications companies will likely take a hit to their revenues as the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic drives a wave of business closings and bankruptcies.
Germany has achieved a “fragile intermediate success” in its the fight against the coronavirus and will take small steps out of lockdown with the partial reopening of shops next week and schools from May 4, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.
Department store chain says it is exploring strategic options after coronavirus prompted store closures
Another 5.2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in latest week
Canada's securities and markets regulators will continue to let investors take short positions on trades despite several European exchanges banning bets against stocks in an attempt to steady market activity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Goldman Sachs said on Friday it expects iPhone shipment to drop 36% during the third quarter due to coronavirus-related lockdowns around the world and downgraded Apple Inc. stock to “sell.”
Onex Corp. CEO Gerry Schwartz has snapped up a British health care staffing firm, just weeks after telling backers his company saw opportunities to make acquisitions at bargain prices during the pandemic.
Every facet of corporate business is potentially impacted by the new COVID-19 environment, and today’s audit committees are facing an increasingly difficult set of challenges. As companies approach their first quarter of reporting since the coronavirus pandemic began, what aspects of the reporting process are weighing heavier on audit committees?
The OSC announced last week that it has awarded a $525,000 whistleblower award to a company outsider who used their industry expertise to identify irregularities. This award to an outside expert appears to be the first of its kind by a Canadian securities regulator and was made under the OSC’s Whistleblower Policy
Now is not the time to consider capping interest deductions for business taxes, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
With businesses focused on the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on current and future liquidity, balance sheet and cash flow concerns, and an expected decline in the level and profitability of business activity in these difficult and uncertain times, in many cases attention has turned to the issue of the duties and responsibilities of directors to creditors when a corporation is financially troubled and is either approaching insolvency (the so-called “zone of insolvency”) or becomes insolvent.
A new wave and second lockdown would be a bigger hit to wealth than a cautious return to work, but Donald Trump is refusing to listen
It might be easier for executives to avoid difficult questions if there is no one in the room
Before your company emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, spend a day, as a board, asking this question and setting the horizon. That way you can, as a director, influence long-term outcomes profoundly and perhaps gain significant long-term strategic advantage for your company out of this global tragedy.
The crash of the energy market is raising questions about the ability of Canada’s most financially stable oil companies to maintain their spotless records of paying dividends.
The coronavirus pandemic has emptied out cities around the world, causing a historic drop in oil demand just as production was reaching new highs. WSJ explains the oil price bust that could reshape energy markets.
EasyJet (EZJ.L) can survive a nine-month shutdown thanks to its measures to contend with the coronavirus crisis and is planning for a slow recovery, the British airline said on Thursday.
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