WASHINGTON — Attorney Michael Cohen’s simultaneous relationship with Donald Trump and several blue chip companies that paid him for insight into the new president strikes legal experts as unusual and has triggered questions about client confidentiality. Cohen’s arrangement stands out, even in Washington where corporations, trade associations and other organizations spend upward of $3 billion […]
The psychological scars left by Canada’s worst natural disaster on the town’s residents are as deep as the physical ones it left on a blighted landscape
WASHINGTON — Starbucks is opening its bathrooms to everyone regardless of whether they’ve bought anything following the arrest last month of two African American men at one of its coffee shops in Philadelphia. Chairman Howard Schultz says he doesn’t want the company to become a public bathroom, but feels employees can make the “right decision […]
TORONTO — Thomson Reuters Corp. reported a loss in its first quarter as it took a one-time charge related to the sale of its financial and risk business announced earlier this year. The news and information company, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, said the loss attributable to shareholders amounted to US$339 million or […]
Peter Hodson: No cash-flow analysis, no current ratios — just a real-world outlook at what’s happening in the real world and with these companies
Thousands of small business owners there want to retire, but with population shifts, there has been no one to take over or buy their businesses
PARIS — France’s finance minister says European countries should push back harder against the Trump administration over the Iran nuclear deal and not act as “vassals” to the U.S. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran accord isn’t a reason to dump decades of trans-Atlantic ties altogether. European governments are […]
WINDSOR, England — Few towns are as stereotypically English as Windsor, the bucolic riverside locale where Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle will get married on May 19. And few towns are as pleasing when a warm spring sun bakes off the morning mist. Even the plump white swans on the Thames seem relieved […]
Members of Generation X (aged 37 to 52) are finding it hard to save, and the tighter timeline is causing them stress, a Franklin Templeton report finds
Market forces cause the difference, and eliminating it could cause more harm than good