Bloomberg Changes from the Trump administration on work visas will be a boost to Canadian information technology provider CGI Group Inc., a major US government contractor that briefly gained notoriety a few years ago for its role in the Obamacare rollout. The Montreal-based company, which employs more than 11,000 people south of the border, said it’s less exposed than ...

  Bloomberg A Panasonic Corp. inflight entertainment and communications systems subsidiary is under investigation by US authorities for allegedly breaking bribery and securities laws. Panasonic Avionics Corp. is being probed by the US Department of Justice and Securities and Securities Exchange Commission for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Osaka-based company said in a statement on Thursday. Panasonic said ...

  Tight labour markets shrink income inequality by causing employers to bid up the price of scarce labor, so policymakers fretting about income inequality could give an epidemic disease a try. This might be a bit extreme but if increased equality is the goal, Stanford’s Walter Scheidel should be heard. His scholarship encompasses many things (classics, history, human biology) and ...