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By conventional measures of stock prices, Amazon.com Inc. looks very expensive. It’s actually surprisingly cheap.
Toronto-Dominion Bank will buy Saskatchewan-based Greystone Managed Investments Inc. for roughly $792-million in stock and cash, a transaction which the bank says makes its asset management division the biggest money manager in Canada.
Deutsche Bank will pay one of its largest shareholders, the US activist investor Cerberus, for advice on restructuring its operations.
What is really required to fix Australian corporate governance is wholesale change in prudential regulation, corporate law, competition law, and electoral law, writes Andrew Linden.
Throughout the course of this process, “commercial sensitivity” has been the rationale provided for secrecy.First for the initial contract signed between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto, the…...
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Shares in French carmaker Renault (RENA.PA) fell on Monday, dragged down by a drop in the stock price of its partner Nissan (7201.T) after the Japanese firm said it would issue an explanation about its emissions measurement processes.
Outperforming firm Primecap Management said Thursday that it increased its position in Pros Holdings Inc. by 55.07% on June 30.
World Cup Economics. As we approach the final rounds of the tournament, here are some recent contributions about the economics and economic impact of the World Cup.
Former CEO and CFO of ITT Barred and Ordered to Pay Penalties
IT IS rare to see the words “Canada” and “world domination” in the same sentence. The country’s cannabis producers want to change that. With an eye on October 17th, the date on which recreational marijuana will become legal, medical-cannabis firms have been expanding at home and talking up their global ambitions in a most un-Canadian way.
As today’s business landscape continues to shift, we see more boards forming new, strategically focused committees outside the big three (Audit, Compensation, Nominating & Governance). Although it goes by many names, the Technology Committee has become one of the more popular new committees—no big surprise as technology becomes an integral part of any company’s strategic plan.
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Employees at the new warehouse will pick, pack and ship large items such as household decor, sporting equipment and gardening tools
Marshall Goldsmith, twice designated the #1 Leadership Thinker in the World, said it best: “What got you here won’t get you there!” Just because you’re smart, committed to your organization and have been told that you’re on the fast track to success, your path to an executive role is by no means guaranteed.
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”) are companies formed to raise capital in an initial public offering (“IPO”) with the purpose of using the proceeds to acquire one or more unspecified businesses or assets to be identified after the IPO. From the beginning of 2014 through November 30, 2017, almost 80 SPAC IPOs have closed, raising approximately $19 billion in gross proceeds.
In the Pittsburgh region, women hold 21 percent of director seats at publicly held companies, up from 20 percent a year ago and 17 percent in 2016, according to data compiled by the Post-Gazette from 61 public companies based here or with significant operations here.
China becomes the home of the world's second most unicorn companies
Corporate Social Responsibility v. Corporate Shareholder Responsibility
Two public pension funds ‘wasted $5.5bn on Wall St fees’
The pressure mounts on Enbridge to make a fair offer to owners of Enbridge Income Fund
What do companies really have to reveal when a CEO is ousted?
Competition regulator asks Big Four to look for ways to change audit market
For a year, billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb has watched quietly from afar as Nestle SA tries to energize its business. But his patience has worn thin and he has been telling associates and his own investors that time is now up for the world’s No. 1 food company.
FOR roughly a year speculation has been feverish: would Amazon, an online retail giant, muscle into America’s prescription-drugs market? On June 28th that uncertainty ended when it bought a small online pharmacy, PillPack, based in Manchester, New Hampshire, for about $1bn. When the deal is completed later this year, Amazon will be able to sell prescription drugs to customers in the 50 states where PillPack has licenses.
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