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Canadian e-commerce company swings into profit from $1.5 million loss last year 
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Airlines and passengers alike are flying into a world of flygskam and flying taxis.
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The Belt and Road Initiative revives memories of China’s imperial tributary system, says Dominic Ziegler
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CEO pay continues to be discussed extensively in the media, in the boardroom, and among investors and proxy advisors. CEO total direct compensation (TDC; base salary + actual bonus paid + grant value of long-term incentives [LTI]) increased at a moderate pace in the first part of the last decade —in the 2-6% range for 2011-2016.
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IKEA named insider Jon Abrahamsson Ring to succeed Torbjorn Loof as chief executive of the world’s biggest furniture brand on Tuesday as it adapts to seismic shifts in shopping.
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Office sharing startup WeWork on Tuesday brought forward its target for becoming free cash-flow positive by a year to 2022 and said it expects to post its first ever $1-billion revenue quarter this year.
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The EU is not lost to market fundamentalism just yet
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BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street routinely vote to block environmental and social action at companies, research says
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Adam Neumann’s chairman successor tried to poke holes in the disgraced ex-WeWork CEO’s eye-popping golden parachute on Monday.
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Proposed $4.8 trillion budget assumes greater-than-expected economic growth and overlooks potential tax-law changes
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Chairman Jerome Powell tells lawmakers Fed would respond to developments that cause a ‘material reassessment’ to a positive growth outlook
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Under Armour Inc on Tuesday forecast a surprise drop in 2020 profit, blaming ongoing weakness in its North American business and the coronavirus outbreak in China, sending its shares tumbling as much as 16%.
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Reflecting the growing push among investors, asset managers, companies and other stakeholders for a standardized ESG disclosure framework, a task force sponsored by the International Business Council (IBC) of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has released a consultation draft proposing a set of common disclosures aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals for companies to consider.
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Jean-Francois van Boxmeer, chief executive of Dutch brewer Heineken for the past 15 years, will step down on June 1 and be replaced by the head of the company’s Asia-Pacific region, the world’s second largest beer maker said on Tuesday.
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everal decades of research have found that capital structure and financing decisions are influenced not only by market frictions such as taxes and bankruptcy costs but also by conflicts between managers and shareholders. In a new paper, we test whether and to what extent limited rights for shareholders to file derivative lawsuits influence firms’ capital structure and financing decisions.
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Investors watch eagerly to learn which businesses find favour and which fall out of it
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Private equity investors helped drive a hefty jump in Canadian merger and acquisition activity in 2019, and the momentum is expected to carry over this year with interest rates remaining low and global trade tensions appearing to ease.
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As foreign tech heavyweights increasingly expand into Canada, this country’s emerging tech giants are pushing ahead with rapid hiring plans of their own.
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The bestselling French economist talks to the FT's European economics commentator Martin Sandbu about ideology, capital, and how to make societies fairer with taxes on wealth and inheritance
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Wealthiest households have bought $1.2tn of company stakes since 1990
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Companies say resolutions pose undue burdens; small investors defend them as a pillar of shareholder democracy
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The most commonly held S&P 500 stocks in actively managed sustainable equity funds last fall were giants including Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple
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White House budget calls for annual spending of $2 billion on AI and $860 million on quantum within two years
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JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) is in talks to merge its marquee blockchain unit Quorum with Brooklyn-based startup ConsenSys, according to people familiar with the plans.
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A federal judge on Tuesday approved wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc’s takeover of Sprint Corp, rejecting a claim by a group of states that said the deal would violate antitrust laws and raise prices.
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