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Royal Dutch Shell PLC and its banks have cashed in on one of precious few opportunities to unload a mountain of Canadian energy shares at a tidy profit. 
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has seized a chance to protect small investors from unscrupulous brokers. But it is too soon to tell whether “Regulation Best Interest”, as the SEC is calling its proposed new rules, will live up to its sweeping promises.
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Consumer campaign group says there is a conflict of interest in Jeff Bezos holding both the CEO and chairman roles at Amazon.
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Start with the good news from the trade negotiations between China and America. After weeks of threatening tariffs and counter-tariffs, representatives from the world’s two biggest economies are at last talking.
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A new report challenges the belief that Canadians pay too much for their wireless communications services.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc on Tuesday decided to take the name of its best performing optical products unit as part of a turnaround plan and raised its 2018 revenue forecast.
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The chief executive officer of posh men’s wear chain Harry Rosen Inc. has seen unprecedented upheaval in the business over the past two years. His suppliers are launching their own standalone stores and e-commerce sites – becoming key competitors – while U.S. upscale department stores Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue have set up shop in Canada.
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Loblaw Cos. Ltd. is accelerating its grocery e-commerce push, joining other major food retailers in boosting online selling to fight off powerhouse Amazon.com Inc. as rising costs cut into profit margins.
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Elon Musk pledged to “burn” investors shorting Tesla Inc. and criticized analysts and even himself after exchanges during the electric-car maker’s earnings call sent shares tumbling.
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Canadians haven’t adopted fintech because the Bay Street oligopoly hasn’t. And we're attuned to what they do
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The CEO of Crescent Point Energy Corp. is vowing to work harder to address complaints after shareholders rejected four dissident directors at its annual meeting on Friday, but refused to support the company’s approach to executive pay.
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The chief executive of National Bank of Greece, the country’s second-largest lender, stepped down on Friday, one day before the results of ECB stress tests for Greek banks are expected to be announced and two weeks before his three-year contract is due to end.
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Tens of thousands of shareholders flocked to Omaha for Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting this weekend. It was an opportunity for shareholders to listen to Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger speak on a wide range of topics, including U.S.-China trade relations, doing business with gun owners and candy.
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A significant gap in positions on auto rules between the United States and Mexico continued to cast doubt on the likelihood of an imminent NAFTA deal Tuesday, as countries gathered for what could be a final effort to achieve an agreement this year.
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Knowledge and skills in the boardroom must evolve with the risks and opportunities presented by technology—as well as its associated data—if companies are to remain competitive.
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Canada faces a competitiveness challenge that the nation must address with “tremendous urgency” or get left behind countries like the U.S. and China, warns Royal Bank of Canada’s chief executive officer.
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Canada’s traditional grocery stores continued to lose food market share to Walmart and Costco in 2017, according to a new report that highlights the stiff competition between the country’s biggest food retailers.
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While the British Columbia government wages war against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, its own employees are invested in the U.S. company behind the $7.4-billion project.
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The development of e-commerce has affected both demand and supply fundamentals of markets, changing the way competition works. In the effort to develop a frictionless and welfare maximizing digital single market across the EU, it is necessary to carefully review the disruptive forces on e-commerce on markets and firms’ strategies.
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This is not about regulation, so I urge you to set aside your fears of another open-ended article on regulating crypto currencies. I am no expert on the overarching governance of blockchain and ethereum based digital transactions, however, after over a decade in financial advisory and a focus on corporate governance, I contend that we are facing the single largest challenge to corporate governance in the last five centuries.
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Talks to update the NAFTA trade deal enter a make-or-break week on Monday, as ministers from Canada, the United States and Mexico seek to resolve an impasse in key areas before elections in Mexico and the United States complicate the process.
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Billionaire Warren Buffett has been buying a boatload of Apple Inc shares and on Saturday suggested he would buy even more shares at the right price.
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Billionaires in cowboy hats, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and Bill Gates playing ping pong. Berkshire Hathaway's three-day AGM has it all
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While 90% of directors say age diversity is important — more than said the same about either gender or race — few younger people are being nominated
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Thousands of Warren Buffett acolytes descended on Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday for Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, otherwise known as the Woodstock of Capitalism.
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