 Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
When Boeing Co. ’s board of directors convened at company headquarters in mid-December, they faced a once-unthinkable decision. Should the plane maker suspend production of the troubled 737 MAX jetliner? 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
Macy's is closing at least 15 stores in the early part of 2020.
Scoop.it!
The company is an emblem of resistance to corporate governance reform
Scoop.it!
With over US$20 billion paid out in total over the past five years, discretionary compensation has become a systemic compensation issue that needs to be addressed.
Scoop.it!
Trying to speculate which business Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio)'s Berkshire Hathaway will buy next is pretty much a guessing game.
Scoop.it!
The progress and promise realized and presented by artificial intelligence in finance has been remarkable. It has made finance cheaper, faster, larger, more accessible, more profitable, and more efficient in many ways. Yet for all the significant progress and promise made possible by financial artificial intelligence, it also presents serious risks and limitations.
Scoop.it!
The roughly 15% drop in 2019 followed a 10% decline in ’18; more headwinds expected
Scoop.it!
Individual taxpayers are half as likely to get audited as they were in 2010, after tax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service fell to the lowest level in at least four decades.
Scoop.it!
It would take a lot of work to to make the Bay relevant again. And even then, it might be too late
Scoop.it!
New head of FCAC promising federal regulator will be much more active as it prepares to enforce new consumer-protection measures
Scoop.it!
In the last decade, most advanced economies have grown more slowly than before. Slower growth has frequently been seen as a legacy of financial crises, especially that of 2007–2009.
Scoop.it!
The statement, which explicitly superseded the Roundtable’s previous statements, according to which “corporations exist principally to serve their shareholders,” appeared also to reject the Delaware courts’ insistence, as recently as October 2019, that “a board of directors . . . owes fiduciary duties to the corporation for the ultimate benefit of its residual risk bearers, viz., the class of claimants represented by the undifferentiated equity.
Scoop.it!
Brexit is a near-certainty; American withdrawal from NATO a long shot
|
Scoop.it!
However, the beverage company said its profit and sales moved higher on stronger demand for its beer
Scoop.it!
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Wednesday that an increase in riskier corporate debt sales “poses a financial stability concern”, with the possibility an economic downturn could trigger a wave of credit rating downgrades and a fire sale from investors.
Scoop.it!
2019 deal count hits record as companies face shrinking growth at home
Scoop.it!
The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets.
Scoop.it!
In November, FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) CEO and founder Fred Smith and Chief Financial Officer Alan Graf sat down for an interview with Stanley Cates of Southeastern Asset Management (the firm has held shares of FedEx in portfolios since the early 1990s, and it’s currently a 6% weighting in their Partners Fund). As longtime readers know, I’ve been following FedEx closely over the past year, and I thought there were a number of interesting tidbits from the interview.
Scoop.it!
U.S. chief executives are getting worried about a recession.
Scoop.it!
The little-known practice of ‘outskilling,’ where employers train about-to-be-laid-off workers for jobs outside the company, is gaining ground as a solution to automation-related labor disruption.
Scoop.it!
Deficit in goods and services lowest since October 2016 as imports fell 1.0%
Scoop.it!
Who’s going to look after Canada’s economic wellbeing for the next five years? Canada slips and there’s nobody to catch it, not Parliament or other levels of government. The Liberals spent five years variously pandering to environmental, regional or anti-capitalist interests. Now in a minority position, the situation will worsen.
Scoop.it!
As we turn the page toward a new decade, let's look back at 25 companies that laid off workers in 2019.
Scoop.it!
It’s a constant criticism from the sidelines: Businesses are too focused on the short term, they spend too much energy trying to hit short-term targets and too little time on optimizing long-term results.
Scoop.it!
The planet’s biggest break-up is under way
|
