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The Ontario government is pushing back against New York State's Buy American law by limiting public sector procurement with suppliers in that state, but the opposition is blasting the move as "grandstanding."
Why are Western government officials so afraid of Huawei Technologies Co.? The Chinese tech giant is facing increasing scrutiny in the West, where lawmakers in several countries have recently expressed concerns that the Chinese government could use Huawei’s telecom equipment to spy on networks or access critical infrastructure.
Proponents of blockchain see it as the future – but when might it become the present? In this latest episode of ‘The Sound of Economics’ we welcome Julio Faura, global head of innovation at Banco Santander, and Johan Pouwelse, associate professor at Delft University of Technology, to help illuminate the blockchain concept and where it could be taking us.
Despite the widespread recognition of emerging threats posed by cyber risk and its importance as a new type of risk, there is little evidence on how successful cyberattacks affect corporations. In particular, we know little about which types of firms are more likely to experience cyberattacks, and how such attacks affect target firm shareholder wealth, growth, and financial strength.
A number of recent studies have focused on how the behavior of chief executives affects their firms’ financial decisions. We contribute to this literature by looking at the connections between CEOs’ personal finances and those of their firms.
Federal officials have taken a close look at how the government can make online services like Netflix and Amazon voluntarily collect sales tax, similar to the model Quebec plans to bring in next year.
If you search the beaten-up Canadian energy sector for a notable underperformer, you’ll likely come face to face with Calgary-based Athabasca Oil Corp., a stock that has fallen off the radar screens of most investors following a splashy initial public offering in 2010.
Peter Munk died at the age of 90 surrounded by family in Toronto. He was an immigrant and a mining magnate who gave back to his adopted country and left an unparalleled legacy, Eric Reguly writes
Does Elon Musk control Tesla Inc.? Colloquially speaking, sure he does: He is Tesla's chief executive officer, the chairman of its board and its largest shareholder. He is also its co-founder, even though he didn't found it, which is a hard trick to pull off at a company that you don't control.
Activist investors in Japan may be struggling to get companies to embrace their proposals but are optimistic that management is warming to shareholder activism that will likely shape more of Corporate Japan’s decision making.
Large investors in Deutsche Bank have urged its chairman to provide a clear signal on whether the board backs the lender’s embattled chief executive or not, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
French President Emmanuel Macron promised 1.5 billion euros ($1.85 billion) of public funding into artificial intelligence by 2022 in a bid to reverse a brain drain and catch up with the dominant U.S. and Chinese tech giants.
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As the 2018 proxy season is now gaining full speed, the first group of the required CEO-to-median employee pay ratio disclosures have made their eagerly-awaited debut. Gibson Dunn has been tracking all required pay ratio disclosures by S&P 500 and Fortune 100 companies and, while still early, there are a number of key observations and emerging trends from the filings to date.
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The NextEra sale is seen in the energy sector as being specifically related to taxation. It's likely the first of many such deals
It's easy to understand Apple CEO Tim Cook's somewhat self-righteous comments on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal: His company has never emphasized customer data monetization, and privacy has been one of its persistent selling points. Apple still collects our data — and reserves the right to share it — but the company has a much better track record than newer tech titans.
Understanding if our individual cultural backgrounds shape the everyday decisions we make is a topic of great interest and resurgent public debate. The commercial success of genealogy websites such as ancestry.com and television shows such as “Who Do You Think You Are”
A cyber-attack is a risk that every firm must manage. Prior studies raised doubts about how harmful cyber-attacks actually are. In particular, studies used the market reaction to cyber-attacks to show that they cause only small losses that decrease over time.
Hydro-Quebec will now need to go through Maine as part of a massive export deal to sell hydropower to Massachusetts.
Federal officials have taken a close look at how the government can make online services like Netflix and Amazon voluntarily collect sales tax, similar to the model Quebec plans to bring in next year.
Saudi Arabia won classification as an emerging market by a major index compiler for the first time, a key step toward the kingdom’s goal of attracting billions in additional stock investor inflows.
The Hudson’s Bay Company has had a turbulent year, but a new CEO’s now in place and talking up the need to be creative around retail customers, online and offline.
There is one year left until Brexit. Investors seem to have adjusted to the reality of the U.K. leaving the European Union. But a key barometer used to measure the stress of Brexit isn’t telling the whole story.
Barclays will pay $2 billion to settle claims for billions of dollars of losses suffered by investors who bought toxic mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the 2007 financial crisis, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
BlackBerry Ltd. chief executive John Chen stops short of saying “I told you so” in the aftermath of Facebook Inc.’s privacy scandal over its data being harvested for use in the U.S. election, but just barely.
Highlights from the 2018 Ontario budget, unveiled by Finance Minister Charles Sousa Wednesday. This budget will be the Liberal government’s last before the coming provincial election.
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