Archiv: shareholders


25.06.2020 - 19:23 [ Politico.com ]

House members, Senate aides traded stocks in early days of coronavirus

(31.03.2020)

Holmes traded out two stocks a week later, on Jan. 29, then on Feb. 27 made two purchases that could prove advantageous in the weeks ahead: Holmes purchased between $15,001 and $50,000 of stock in each of two more companies, the pharmaceutical company Gilead, Inc. — which makes remdesivir, a drug that is currently being tested to treat coronavirus — and wipe manufacturer Clorox.

25.06.2020 - 18:55 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Donald Rumsfeld‘s controversial links to drug company behind Tamiflu

(2 May 2009)

Mr Rumsfeld, a former chairman of the company, has refused to comment on whether he still holds shares in Californian firm Gilead Sciences, which developed the drug now being desperately stockpiled by governments around the world to combat the threatened pandemic.

30.04.2020 - 14:01 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Donald Rumsfeld‘s controversial links to drug company behind Tamiflu

(2 May 2009)

Mr Rumsfeld, a former chairman of the company, has refused to comment on whether he still holds shares in Californian firm Gilead Sciences, which developed the drug now being desperately stockpiled by governments around the world to combat the threatened pandemic.

29.04.2020 - 18:42 [ Washington Post ]

The U.S. plans to lend $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay.

Democrats asked for restrictions on how companies can use the money from the central bank’s bond purchases but were rebuffed by the administration during negotiations about the Cares Act, said a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).

08.06.2019 - 14:22 [ Washington Post ]

Bernie Sanders backs 2 policies to dramatically shift corporate power to U.S. workers

Sanders said his campaign is working on a plan to require large businesses to regularly contribute a portion of their stocks to a fund controlled by employees, which would pay out a regular dividend to the workers. Some models of this fund increase employees’ ownership stake in the company, making the workers a powerful voting shareholder. The idea is in its formative stages and a spokesman did not share further details.

Sanders also said he will introduce a plan to force corporations to give workers a share of the seats on their boards of directors.

31.08.2018 - 02:11 [ CBC ]

With project in doubt, Kinder Morgan shareholders vote to sell Trans Mountain pipeline to Ottawa

Kinder Morgan Canada shareholders voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve the sale of the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project to the Canadian government for $4.5 billion.
The vote came just 30 minutes after the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the federal government‘s approvals to build the massive project, handing a huge victory to Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to it.

22.05.2018 - 11:35 [ Bloomberg.com ]

Italy Populists Seek Banking System Overhaul in Policy Plan

(17.5.2018) A 39-page draft program published by Corriere della Sera and confirmed by Five Star and League officials contains plans including a strategy review for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, the lender that was nationalized last year. The company’s shares fell the most in almost seven months.