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Le nombre d’armes nucléaires déployées et prêtes à l’emploi a significativement augmenté l’an dernier, indique un rapport publié jeudi, qui qualifie cette situation de « développement préoccupant » dans un contexte d’intensification des conflits armés. Au total, neuf États sont dotés de l’arme atomique : la Russie, les États-Unis, la France, le Royaume-Uni, la Chine, l’Inde, le Pakistan, Israël et la Corée du Nord. Ils possédaient 12 187 ogives nucléaires au début de cette année, selon ce rapport, le Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor, publié par l’ONG Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) en collaboration avec la Fédération des scientifiques américains (FAS).
Shareholders of Super Micro Computer sued the Silicon Valley server maker on Wednesday, accusing it of committing securities fraud by concealing its dependence on sales to China that violated U.S. export laws, leading to criminal smuggling charges involving Nvidia chips against a co-founder and two others linked to the company. In a proposed class action filed in San Francisco federal court, shareholders said Super Micro overstated its business prospects and inflated its stock price by knowingly failing to disclose that a significant portion of server sales went to companies in China, and the company had material weaknesses in its compliance with export control laws.
L’homme d’affaires Pierre Karl Péladeau a acheté pour près de 600 000 $ d’actions de Transat au cours des dernières semaines, ce qui a fait passer à 10 % sa participation dans le voyagiste québécois. « Financière Outremont, une société contrôlée par Pierre Karl Péladeau, annonce avoir acquis 244 000 actions [...] de Transat A.T. [...] entre le 4 mars et le 24 mars 2026, à un prix moyen de 2,42 $ par action, pour une contrepartie totale de 589 272 $ », lit-on dans un communiqué publié mardi.
Les cours du pétrole montent jeudi après que Donald Trump a qualifié les négociateurs iraniens de « différents et “bizarres” » et alors que l’Iran dément toujours toutes discussions avec les États-Unis, faisant craindre une nouvelle escalade du conflit. Le président américain a aussi exhorté l’Iran à « devenir sérieux avant qu’il ne soit trop tard », sur son réseau Truth Social. Lundi il avait repoussé de cinq jours l’ultimatum visant à frapper des installations énergétiques iraniennes. Mais publiquement l’Iran nie discuter avec Washington.
Alors que les élus québécois s’apprêtent à voter une motion demandant sa démission, le PDG d’Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, se dit « profondément attristé » par la controverse linguistique qui a « dévié l’attention du profond deuil des familles ». Air Canada avait mis en ligne une vidéo de M. Rousseau presque exclusivement en anglais offrant ses condoléances pour la mort des deux pilotes dont l’un, Antoine Forest, est un résidant du Coteau-du-Lac, en Montérégie. Dans deux communiqués publiés jeudi matin, en français et en anglais, le PDG d’Air Canada s’excuse d’emblée pour sa piètre maîtrise du français.
Les employés d’une société néo-zélandaise dans laquelle La Caisse est un important actionnaire pourront finalement faire entendre leurs doléances devant les tribunaux. La Haute Cour de Nouvelle-Zélande tiendra ses premières audiences en mai, dans le cadre d’une action collective menée par près de 200 actionnaires-employés de l’entreprise spécialisée en technologie financière FNZ, ont annoncé les employés mécontents dans un communiqué. La cause a des échos au Québec alors que la Caisse est pointée du doigt par les requérants.
Emerge Canada Inc. chief executive officer Lisa Langley says she intends to repay $4.7-million that remains owing to investors after she settles two court cases in the United States. At an enforcement hearing on Tuesday, Ms. Langley told the Capital Markets Tribunal, an independent adjudicative arm of the Ontario Securities Commission, that she did not set up a “prohibited loan” worth millions of dollars from a group of Emerge exchange traded funds her company managed. She acknowledged the money was moved, but said the transfer was approved by the firm’s auditors and legal counsel.
Merck has reached a nearly $6 billion cash deal to buy the cancer biotech Terns Pharmaceuticals and its promising leukemia treatment.If it proves to work safely, the experimental drug would give Merck a boost as the company prepares for its top-selling drug, Keytruda, to lose patent protection.Under the terms, Merck would pay $53 a share for Terns, Merck said Wednesday. The deal is worth $5.7 billion including the cash that Terns has on hand.
California billionaires who oppose a ballot measure to tax their wealth are fighting back with ballot measures of their own. And the campaigns they’re funding are paying signature collectors $15 a pop. A group called Building a Better California has collected nearly $80 million from tech and business leaders since January. State disclosures show $45 million is from Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Building a Better California describes itself as a nonpartisan organization working to tackle long-term issues, including housing affordability. But it has also funneled more than $33 million to three ballot-measure campaigns that take aim at portions of the proposed wealth tax.
Vinci said it signed an agreement with Macquarie Asset Management to acquire the Safeway Concessions portfolio, valued at around 150 billion Indian rupees ($1.60 billion) including debt/cash. The French construction company on Thursday said the portfolio comprises nine toll highway concessions in southeast India, as well as in the west of the country. The concessions total nearly 700 kilometers of highway sections, linking important industrial, agricultural and logistics areas, that are operated under contracts with the National Highways Authority of India.
An activist hedge fund has a roughly 2.5% stake in Driven Brands and is pushing the automotive services provider to explore a sale or break up, according to a copy of a letter ADW sent to Driven that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Adam Wyden’s hedge fund, ADW Capital, also accuses Driven’s majority owner, private-equity firm Roark Capital, of mismanaging the business in the letter. Driven, which owns brands including Meineke and Auto Glass Now, has a market value of about $2 billion.
Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen handed in her coalition government's resignation on Wednesday after suffering a massive election defeat, but could still emerge as leader of a new cabinet in the coming weeks. Analysts say the result was a voter revolt over broken economic promises of the outgoing centrist government and a sign that the electorate was tired of Frederiksen as a leader after seven years in power. Frederiksen's Social Democratic Party had its worst election since 1903 on Tuesday, winning just 38 seats in the 179-seat parliament amid voter concerns over the environment, the cost-of-living crisis and welfare.
After 18 years spent forging a career at Scotia, Westlake left to become CFO of Equitable Group, later EQ Bank, and seemed on track to succeed Andrew Moor as CEO. Then suddenly, in March 2025, Westlake jumped that track to become CFO at the software firm OpenText. Just four months later, EQB announced Westlake as its new president and CEO. When he officially took over a month later, the changes at Canada’s seventh-largest Schedule I bank really began. In less than half a year, the 47-year-old Westlake has signed a transformative deal to buy PC Financial, put EQB through its first restructuring, cut 8% of its workforce.
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Canada will pitch plans for a new defence bank to G7 nations, urging them to join an initiative to provide critical financing for small and medium‑sized defence firms that struggle to access capital, Foreign Minister Anita Anand told Reuters on Thursday.
Foreign ministers from the world's leading Western democracies are meeting in France on March 26-27 against the backdrop of wars in Iran and Ukraine, economic uncertainty, and mounting unease over unpredictable U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. insurers Equitable and Corebridge Financial said on Thursday they will merge in an all-stock deal that would create a $22 billion retirement, life insurance and asset management company.
The combined company will have more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management and administration and serve more than 12 million customers. Insurers are seeking scale to stay competitive, diversify their business, and strengthen their position in expanding markets such as retirement and wealth.
After 18 years spent forging a career at Scotia, Westlake left to become CFO of Equitable Group, later EQ Bank, and seemed on track to succeed Andrew Moor as CEO. Then suddenly, in March 2025, Westlake jumped that track to become CFO at the software firm OpenText. Just four months later, EQB announced Westlake as its new president and CEO. When he officially took over a month later, the changes at Canada’s seventh-largest Schedule I bank really began. In less than half a year, the 47-year-old Westlake has signed a transformative deal to buy PC Financial, put EQB through its first restructuring, cut 8% of its workforce.
On construit une tonne de logements à Montréal, mais peu les louent, constate une nouvelle étude. Avec seulement un logement en construction sur dix réservé, l’Institut de développement urbain du Québec craint que les promoteurs ne finissent par déserter la métropole. En 2025, plus de 80 % des mises en chantier à Montréal ont été destinées au marché locatif – une proportion record, selon la Société canadienne d’hypothèques et de logement (SCHL). On pourrait penser que ces logements trouveront rapidement preneur, puisqu’on ne cesse de répéter qu’il en manque dans la métropole… Mais ce n’est pas si simple.
Les droits de douane imposés par les États-Unis aux produits canadiens font moins mal que prévu à l’économie canadienne, mais leur impact est plus important qu’anticipé en Ontario et dans les régions du Québec. Un an après avoir estimé l’impact possible de la guerre commerciale déclenchée par les États-Unis sur les régions du Québec, les économistes de Desjardins viennent de publier une révision de ces estimations. « Ce qu’on constate, c’est que le tarif effectif des droits de douane est moins élevé que ce qu’on prévoyait il y a un an pour le Canada, mais qu’il est plus élevé pour le Québec », résume l’économiste Maëlle Boulais-Préseault, économiste senior chez Desjardins.
Denmark’s foreign minister and his centrist party are expected to decide who will lead the Scandinavian country’s next government after Tuesday’s parliamentary elections ended without a clear majority for any party or bloc. Centre-left Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen could survive for a third term, despite a disappointing result. But she will need to negotiate a deal with the kingmaker, Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, if she is to lead a new coalition. “The Danes have spoken. They have given us a playing field that, to put it mildly, is a bit tricky to handle when it comes to forming a government,” Frederiksen said Wednesday.
Australia’s Macquarie Asset Management has emerged as the lead contender to acquire Malaysian telecom giant Axiata Group’s majority stake in one of the world’s biggest telecommunications tower firms, people familiar with the matter say. Talks to acquire Edotco are ongoing, the people said, and a deal isn’t assured. One person said recent developments in the Middle East have been considered but aren’t expected to affect any potential deal.
Beretta Holding has made an offer to increase its stake in Sturm, Ruger & Company, the latest move in an escalating dispute between the two firearms makers. Beretta said it sent a letter to Ruger’s board on Wednesday regarding a potential acquisition of up to 20.05% of Ruger’s outstanding shares that Beretta doesn’t already own for $44.80 a share in cash. The proposed price represents a roughly 20% premium to the stock’s 60-day volume-weighted average price, Beretta said.
Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena said its board suspended Chief Executive Luigi Lovaglio from his duties after a minority shareholder proposed him for another mandate defying the board’s plan to appoint a new head. The move marks the latest twist in a governance clash that escalated over the past month after Monte dei Paschi decided to not to re-elect Lovaglio at the end of his term, ousting the executive who led it over the past four years and steered the bank through a hostile takeover of larger rival Mediobanca. Earlier this week, it said it intended to propose Fabrizio Palermo, the boss of Italian water operator Acea, as its new CEO.
Henkel said it agreed to buy Olaplex Holdings for around $1.4 billion, snapping up the U.S. maker of premium shampoo in a deal that adds volume to the German company’s hair-care portfolio. The German maker of consumer-goods and chemicals said it would acquire premium hair-care brand Olaplex for around $2.06 a share, a 55% premium to its closing price Wednesday but a fraction of the $13.6 billion, or $21 a share, valuation it went public at. The transaction for Olaplex was approved by the hair brand’s board of directors, and controlling shareholder Advent International agreed to approve the transaction, Henkel said.
“This is a major crisis now” for Air Canada, said François Dauphin, president of the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations. It will take a significant communications effort to repair the situation, he said. The chairman responded that Mr. Rousseau was committed to learning French and that it would be “an integral part” of his performance evaluation. However, the company has provided scant details on that evaluation in its public filings, Mr. Dauphin said.
Le gouvernement Legault exige la démission du grand patron d’Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, un « récidiviste » qui a fait preuve de « mépris » envers les Québécois et les francophones du pays en ne s’exprimant qu’en anglais dans la foulée de la collision à l’aéroport LaGuardia. « S’il ne parle toujours pas français aujourd’hui, c’est un manque de respect envers ses employés et envers ses clients francophones. Donc oui, je pense que s’il ne parle pas français, il devrait démissionner », a lancé François Legault, mercredi, rappelant « qu’Air Canada a son siège social à Montréal ».
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