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A recent study found boards with female directors were more likely to have formal environmental policies, protecting biodiversity and reducing air emissions
Demand for oil has been falling as employees stay home, stores remain closed and governments limit travel to fight coronavirus
'It never feels very good to have this degree of chaos, but this will pass'
The stock markets are reeling as fear and uncertainty about the global pandemic grow. We asked Yale SOM’s William Goetzmann, whose research includes financial history, to put the volatility into historical perspective.
Gold prices jump, signaling that investors continue to pile into the safest assets amid growing expectations of a global economic recession
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Coronavirus impact worse than post-9/11 attacks, financial crisis combined, Marriott CEO says
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The pandemic is spurring some of the world’s largest companies to take emergency balance sheet action
Statistics Canada reports wholesale sales rose 1.8 per cent to $65.2 billion in January, boosted by the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts and accessories and the miscellaneous subsectors.
The chief executives of most Canadian banks saw their pay fall in 2019, a year where performance cooled after a hot 2018.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a conference call with Canada’s First Ministers Monday morning amid a new report that the economy could remain in a standstill until August and shed hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Central banks have offered trillions of dollars of support to markets in recent days to keep them from freezing up, as investors worried about the economic damage from the coronavirus and made a chaotic dash for the exits.
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Monday said it would begin backstopping an unprecedented range of credit for households, small businesses and major employers in an effort to offset the “severe disruptions” to the economy caused by the coronarvirus outbreak.
Direct payments should be made to citizens and companies
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The coronavirus pandemic will cause a global recession in 2020 that could be worse than the one triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, but world economic output should recover in 2021, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
‘Sentiment has improved, but to call it a turning point is too strong a word for now’
Survey of services and manufacturing sectors illustrates impact of coronavirus on economy
Asset-manager proxy voting support for ESG-related shareholder resolutions has increased considerably over the past five years, with average support across 50 large fund families rising to 46% from 27%.
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Japanese tech giant will spend up to $18 billion for share buybacks
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The pandemic is spurring some of the world’s largest companies to take emergency balance sheet action
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2019 brought another record year of pay for CEOs of big companies, but 2020 is expected to bring a recalibration
The United Nations will create a fund to prevent the spread of coronavirus and support the treatment of patients worldwide, Norway said on Monday.
Endeavour Mining Corp. is buying Montreal-based gold miner Semafo Inc. for $1-billion in an all-stock deal that will see Endeavour’s biggest shareholder pump $100-million into the combined entity.
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Monday mounted an extraordinary new array of programs to offset the “severe disruptions” to the economy caused by the coronavirus outbreak, backstopping an unprecedented range of credit for households, small businesses and major employers.
Sweden’s H&M (HMb.ST), the world’s second largest clothing retailer, said on Monday it had decided to scrap its proposed dividend due to the coronavirus outbreak, and that it was reviewing all parts of its operations, including all costs.
Energy groups rush to protect themselves from coronavirus and oil market turmoil
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