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Byline: GORDON PAPE Editor and publisher of the Internet Wealth Builder and Income Investor newsletters A s the whole world knows by now, Donald Trump plans to impose a 25-percent [...]

Steps to bolster the economy have set off a stock buying frenzy. Our columnist spoke to Chinese investors about why they are jumping in knowing the risks. They call China's [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff A three-step plan to position your portfolio for the U.S. election, a potential recession, the rise of AI, black swan events, climate change and more: Hold [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff Some of Canada's largest institutional investors support quick adoption of a slate of new sustainability reporting standards while energy and mining companies want disclosure to remain [...]

Byline: Trisha Thadani SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has waged a campaign to persuade Tesla shareholders to restore his nearly $50 billion pay package, the largest [...]

A billionaire who was critical of Disney's management, Mr. Peltz lost an expensive battle for a place on the company's board. Nearly two months after losing an epic corporate battle [...]

The former G.O.P. presidential candidate, who has invested in BuzzFeed, believes the company needs to pivot. He wants to see commentators like Tucker Carlson in its lineup. BuzzFeed's newest activist [...]

As their losses pile up, Chinese investors are losing confidence not only in the stock market but in the government's ability to turn the economy around. Like many Chinese people, [...]

A series of data reports and actions by policymakers have led investors to reassess their assumptions about interest rates and the economy. Stocks and bonds rallied on Friday, extending a [...]

Byline: TIM SHUFELT; Staff This just in: Beating the stock market is quite difficult. While this may strike some readers as rather obvious news, Canadian investors still mostly entrust their [...]

Byline: JAMESON BERKOW; Staff Canadian corporate directors worried about the possibility of activist investors stealthily lurking in the shadows will soon have a new method of defence. On Wednesday, law [...]

Byline: TIM SHUFELT; Staff INVESTMENT REPORTER Remember all that talk about 'the punchbowl' last year? The one that policy makers were taking away? The upshot was that the party was [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE; Staff Any CEO or board under siege can't say they weren't warned. In January 2021, at the height of the memestock frenzy that sent shares of companies [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL INVESTOR CLINIC What is your opinion of the 'sell in May and go away' strategy? Is there any merit in it? Wall Street loves its investing catchphrases. [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff A tax court judge's ruling that an investor who was day trading stocks in his tax-free savings account must pay tax on the income opens the [...]

Byline: JASON KIRBY; Staff A U.S. hedge fund pushing for Parkland Corp. to split up or be sold welcomed a move by the Calgary-based fuel supply and convenience store giant [...]

AUTOMOTIVE Volvo Fined $130 Million Over Laxity in Recalls The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday that it was imposing a $130 million civil penalty on Volvo Group North [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN; Staff MARKET FORCES This week, two of the biggest brains in the investing business published strikingly different outlooks for the stock market. If Aswath Damodaran's analysis is [...]

Byline: TEMUR DURRANI; Staff Kevin O'Leary was in Miami having lunch with the business team of Circle Internet Financial LLC, a Boston-based technology company that had come up with USDC, [...]

Byline: Steven Zeitchik Since 1990, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has managed hundreds of billions of dollars in assets for nearly 200,000 education workers, holding stakes in traditional investments from [...]

Byline: NIALL McGEE; Staff Rio Tinto PLC is being criticized for unfair treatment in its quest to buy Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd., after a select group of dissident shareholders were [...]

Byline: JOHN DE GOEY Senior investment adviser and portfolio manager at Wellington-Altus Private Wealth Inc. His views are his own and not necessarily those of Wellington-Altus and do not constitute [...]

Byline: JOHN DE GOEY Senior investment adviser and portfolio manager at Wellington-Altus Private Wealth Inc. His views are his own and not necessarily those of Wellington-Altus and do not constitute [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff Canadian regulators are paying closer attention to the rise in do-it-yourself investor activity as online users, many of them first-time investors with limited knowledge of financial [...]

The bear market endures, yet the S&P 500 index rose more than 17 percent from mid-June to mid-August. Don't even try to guess what will happen next, our columnist says. [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN; Staff The economy has a habit of delivering good-news-badnews jokes to investors. This week it offered up a doozy. The good news? Inflation is finally edging down [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE; Staff With interest rates rising, and rapidly so, the driving force that dictated decision making in financial markets for the past 15 years is dying out. In [...]

The drop, from $120 a barrel just two months ago, could be a sign that investors are worried about a global recession. Oil prices continued to fall on Thursday, with [...]

Byline: LARRY MacDONALD; Special to The Globe and Mail 'It's best to have some gold right now,' Greenlight Capital hedge-fund manager David Einhorn advised the audience at the 2022 Sohn [...]

Millions of amateur investors got into the stock market during the pandemic -- some gingerly, some aggressively, some determined to teach Wall Street bigwigs a lesson -- and almost couldn't [...]

Byline: IRENE GALEA; Staff Step into the online groups known as subreddits and it is easy to see how many young investors are finding a place to belong. Whether it's [...]

Byline: JEFFREY JONES; Staff It's coming down to the wire for money managers vying to be in charge of a total of $90-million of environmental, social and governance-themed investment portfolios. [...]

Byline: ANDREW McLAUGHLIN Vice-president of legal affairs and general counsel at Major Drilling ESG ratings providers are popping up like dandelions and sucking up too much sunlight. The cast of [...]

Experts say investors should resist the urge to make drastic changes to their portfolios because of global turmoil. Entire sectors of the global economy are in turmoil after Russia's invasion [...]

Byline: JOE McDONALD; ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING -- China's government tried Wednesday to reassure jittery investors by promising support for real estate and technology companies after regulatory crackdowns caused stock prices [...]

The billionaire investor has proposed two candidates for the company's board. The company argues that his demands are unreasonable given the current U.S. pork supply. The billionaire investor Carl Icahn [...]

Byline: JAREN KERR; Staff The investor leading a proxy battle against the board of Hexo Corp. says he has lost support for its CEO and would consider revamping a C-suite [...]

Byline: JAREN KERR, Staff Lead An investor in HEXO Corp. has called for a board overhaul as the Gatineau-based cannabis producer's share price continues to tumble. Adam Arviv, who owns [...]

Byline: ROBERT TATTERSALL Lead CFA, co-founder of the Saxon family of mutual funds and the retired chief investment officer of Mackenzie Investments It is fair to assume that few investors [...]

The companies are under pressure to generate bigger returns. When a company's stock starts to drag, activist investors often swoop in to shake things up, pressuring the laggard to cut [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS, Staff Lead The recent success of business break-ups has deal makers predicting that more restructurings aimed at boosting a company's value will play out this year, helping [...]

In this season for forecasts and resolutions, investors will be better off if they are able to think 10 or more years ahead, our columnist says. If you want to [...]

Byline: BRENDA BOUW, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Algoma Steel Group Inc. shares have dropped more than 20 per cent since the steel maker's return to the public [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK, Staff Lead The most unhelpful thing you can tell someone who is frustrated about not being able to find an investment adviser is how easy do-it-yourself investing [...]

Byline: ERIC REGULY, Staff ROME -- Lead On Friday, the fear factor dominated the markets. A new and potentially highly contagious COVID-19 variant was making the rounds just when hopes [...]

Byline: RACHELLE YOUNGLAI, Staff Lead A major Cominar REIT unitholder is hiring a proxy adviser to launch a battle against a $2.2-billion privatization plan, saying the offer undervalues the Quebec [...]

Mr. Watson, the head of Ozy Media, said in an interview on NBC's ''Today'' show that Ozy ''is going to open for business.'' Ron Conway, an early investor, was critical [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS, Staff Lead To their credit, every Canadian institution with significant investments in China appears to have avoided the car crash that is real estate developer Evergrande Group. [...]