U.K. workplace study into dress codes finds women forced to wear heels,...
LONDON — A British parliamentary study into workplace dress codes has found that women have been told to wear high heels, dye their hair or wear revealing outfits at the office. The inquiry followed...
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Mexico’s president ‘considering’ scrapping U.S. trip over Trump green-light...
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president is “considering” cancelling next week’s visit to Washington following President Donald Trump’s order to begin construction of a wall between the two countries, a senior...
View ArticleTrump considering twenty per cent tax on Mexican imports to pay for border...
WASHINGTON — Determined to wall off America’s border with Mexico, President Donald Trump triggered a diplomatic clash and fresh fight over trade Thursday as the White House proposed a 20 per cent tax...
View Article‘Diversity is our strength’: Tech leaders in Canada, U.S. unite against Trump...
NEW YORK — Google, Apple and other tech giants expressed dismay over an executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump that bars nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering...
View Article‘More difficult for American firms to compete’: Apple, Google, Uber join...
SEATTLE — Dozens of tech companies, including behemoths like Apple, Google, and Facebook, are siding with Washington state and Minnesota as they fight President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and...
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Dakota Access pipeline construction expected to get go-ahead despite...
BISMARCK, N.D. — The developer of the stalled Dakota Access oil pipeline could get clearance from the Army as early as Wednesday to finish the US$3.8 billion project, though the American Indian tribe...
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Twitter Inc is tanking today after failing to turn headlines into cash
Twitter may be the megaphone for the leader of the free world, but the company’s headline omnipresence has yet to turn into a long sought after pot of gold for co-founder Jack Dorsey. In the near term...
View ArticlePfizer Inc slapped with record $107 million fine by British watchdog for...
LONDON — British regulators fined U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and distributor Flynn Pharma a record 89.4 million pounds (US$112.7 million) Wednesday for increasing the cost of an epilepsy drug by as much as...
View ArticleCSX railroad wants shareholder vote on hedge fund’s demands
OMAHA, Neb. — CSX wants its shareholders to vote on the demands a hedge fund is making as it seeks to install the executive who led Canadian Pacific’s turnaround at the U.S. railroad. The Jacksonville,...
View ArticleThe Zuckerberg manifesto: The Facebook founder on the next decade for his...
NEW YORK — Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term vision for Facebook, laid out in a sweeping manifesto , sometimes sounds more like a utopian social guide than a business plan. Are we, he asks, “building the...
View ArticleWomen are slowly getting more seats in the board room
The number of women sitting at the table in corporate boardrooms across the U.S. is rising very slowly, but it’s rising. Just over 15 per cent of all director seats at publicly traded U.S. companies...
View ArticleHack or no hack, the sale is getting done: Yahoo salvages Verizon deal with...
NEW YORK — Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1...
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Warren Buffett’s ‘bottom line’ in letter to Berkshire Hathaway: Don’t waste...
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire Warren Buffett used his much anticipated annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders to reiterate his wariness of high Wall Street fees and his positive outlook for the...
View ArticleMcDonald’s latest recipe for a U.S. turnaround includes mobile order and pay...
NEW YORK — McDonald’s Corp. says it will launch mobile order-and-pay and curbside pickup across its U.S. restaurants toward the end of the year. The world’s biggest burger chain made the announcement...
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Snap pulls off biggest tech debut since Alibaba, rising almost 50% to $30...
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO — Institutional investors anxious not to be left out of this year’s marquee initial public offering helped Snap Inc pull off the biggest U.S.-listed technology share sale this...
View Article5 things to know about the Chinese economy as its ceremonial congress meets
BEIJING — Instead of dramatic new reforms, Chinese leaders are likely to emphasize reining in surging debt and financial risks to keep growth steady at this year’s meeting of the ceremonial national...
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GM sells its uprofitable European brands to France’s Peugeot
PARIS — General Motors is selling its unprofitable European car business to the French maker of Peugeot, marking the American company’s retreat from a major market and raising concerns of job cuts in...
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U.K. lawmakers are telling companies to put an end to sexist high-heel dress...
LONDON — In a debate that has gone from office corridors to Britain’s Parliament, lawmakers put their foot down Monday and told employers to stop making women wear high heels as part of corporate dress...
View ArticleDavid Rockefeller dies at 101, the last in the generation of America’s most...
NEW YORK — David Rockefeller, the billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the last in his generation of one of the country’s most famously philanthropic families, died Monday. He was 101....
View ArticleWelcome to your new office: A stranger’s living room, a neighbour’s couch
Claire Brynteson had a house, a job and a dining table that was empty once she got her three children out the door every morning. When she received a flyer telling her she could make money by renting...
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