Etiket: Bérubés
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle | Climate mobilization
It appears that 2022 will be particularly active on the scene of shareholder activism in the face of climate change. Will he be able to shake off the dominant inertia?…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: The gas siphons
Soaring prices at the pump are prompting some to call for a reduction in consumption taxes, others to propose the elimination of taxes on fuel in order to mitigate the…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: oil vacuum
Filling a vacuum created by a large-scale embargo on Russian hydrocarbons does not appear obvious. But between the immediate repercussions and the longer-term substitution effect, the heart swings. The question…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: vulnerable to interest rates
Unsurprisingly, the Bank of Canada has committed its policy rate to an upward move that could bring the target for the overnight rate into the 1.75-2.75% range by mid-2024. The…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: Boomerang sanctions against Russia
The boomerang effect of the sanctions against Russia dictates their severity and scope. In reaction to the Russian offensive in Ukraine, European stock markets had one of the worst sessions…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: the gender income gap
The income gap between men and women managed to narrow year after year, largely helped in this by government transfers. Then the pandemic came to impose itself on a daily…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: employment under high tension
The Quebec labor market begins 2022 under high tension. Contrary to the phenomenon measured in the United States, there is no “Great Resignation” in Quebec. At least, the available data…
Gérard Bérubé’s column: unrestricted travel
The federal government plans to announce changes to border health measures this week. A COVID-19 that has become endemic and the worst of Omicron behind invites us to apply measures…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: A “soft” rise in interest rates
All other things being equal”, to use an expression dear to economists, the Bank of Canada will adopt the moderate scenario of increases in its key rate this year. In…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: a more equal Quebec
Quebec companies stand out for the importance they place on female representation on their board of directors. However, they display the same timidity as companies in the rest of Canada…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: skills deficit
By accelerating automation, the labor shortage could have a negative effect in the more or less long term in Canada. One in five employees works in a vulnerable, so-called high-risk…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: an ESG disclosure in opacity
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are still hampered by too timid disclosure. Major companies remain the majority in not disclosing the attention they pay to sustainable development and the…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: Supply shock
Bets are off on the timing of the Bank of Canada’s first key rate hike since October 2018. In the second half of the year, the Bank of Canada said…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: Climate risks not to be underestimated
Canadian financial institutions are urged not to underestimate climate risks. The Bank of Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and six of them recruited from banks and…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: lithium shortage
Masks, vaccines, drugs, semiconductors… The pandemic has spread the collateral damage of globalization and the relocation of production activities to economic and health sovereignty. Global warming adds to it with…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: The Alpha and the Beta
In its reflection paper Metamorphosis. Rethinking investments together, which should be the central theme of its global seminars in 2022, the human resources firm Mercer Canada predicts in particular that…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: and 2022?
2020 was the year of the pandemic, and 2021, the year of recovery. It was before the Omicron variant came to overshadow a year 2022 that was placed under the…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: Singular in the face of the pandemic
Fully integrated tour operator and the only Canadian company to own a hotel chain in sun destinations, Sunwing is living the pandemic on its own terms. Colin Hunter, chairman of…
Gérard Bérubé’s chronicle: Nuvei under assault
Spruce Point Capital Management is putting that back. The activist investor specializing in short selling is targeting Nuvei this time. Reaction: the shares of the Montreal company specializing in payment…
Gérard Bérubé’s column: a sustainable rate hike
The vast majority of Canadian homeowners are able to withstand intensifying upward pressure on interest rates, but a quarter of them could experience increased financial stress. As for the accessibility…