Shale drillers have been hamstrung by pipeline constraints, rising prices for oil-field supplies and shortages of roughnecks and rigs. But there is another reason the highest oil and gas prices in years haven’t tempted U.S. drillers to boost output: Their executives are no longer paid to...
Investors have rebuked two dozen major U.S. companies over their executive-pay packages, sometimes by wide margins or for the second straight year...
Directors who control the board of Cerebral Inc. agreed on a plan to replace Chief Executive Kyle Robertson, sparking leadership tumult at the mental-health startup as it contends with scrutiny over its prescription practices for controlled substances, people familiar with the situation said Tuesday...
Regarding Marlo Oaks’s op-ed “S&P Hits U.S. States With Politicized Credit Scores” (May 9): The integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment practices is not left-wing or right-wing. It is an apolitical practice geared toward delivering transparency so that investors can make informed decisions...
JetBlue Airways Corp. said it plans to launch a hostile takeover attempt for discount carrier Spirit Airlines Inc. after Spirit rejected JetBlue’s $3.6 billion offer in favor of an existing deal with Frontier Airlines...
Activist shareholders at Toshiba may have finally pushed the company to consider selling itself, after years of corporate drama. But they still face a final hurdle: the Japanese government...
Activist hedge fund Third Point LLC told clients it has increased its stake in Shell PLC and is still pushing the oil giant to restructure, six months after calling for a breakup of the company...
Chinese companies like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. are embracing buybacks and one-off dividends, handing cash to shareholders as they seek to shore up their battered stock prices and signal confidence in the long-term outlook...
Peloton Interactive Inc. is exploring a sale of a sizable minority stake, in an effort to shore up its business as the once-hot bike maker’s stock continues to sink...
Finance chiefs could receive smaller increases in bonus pay this year compared with 2021, a reversal after a year in which strong earnings and conservative performance targets led to double-digit increases in cash incentives. Slower economic growth—in part due to rising inflation—and pressure from investors to use more rigorous performance targets could put pressure on cash bonuses in 2022, compensation advisers said...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. posted its best earnings in its history last quarter. Its stock is trouncing the S&P 500. And Warren Buffett’s star power seems to be as strong as ever...
Investors often use ESG criteria to measure a company’s commitment to values beyond shareholder returns—in particular to environmental and social priorities. A perplexing question is why governance—the “G” in ESG—is included as a third factor...
Countries around the world are introducing rules requiring companies to disclose information about their impact on society and the environment...
How should a company’s board of directors think about sustainability? And what role should the CEO and other top executives play? ...
Twitter Inc. on Monday accepted Elon Musk’s bid to take over the company, giving the world’s richest man control over the influential social-media network where he is also among its most powerful users...
Carl Icahn is urging BlackRock Inc. and other big index-fund managers focused on socially conscious investing to support his proxy fight at McDonald ’s Corp. for better treatment of pregnant pigs...
WASHINGTON—President Biden will nominate Michael Barr, a former Treasury Department official, to serve as the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator, the White House said, after Mr. Biden’s first pick for the job withdrew in the face of opposition from Republicans and a key Democratic senator...
The Dodd-Frank Act made the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the least politically accountable financial regulator in Washington, and new director Rohit Chopra is taking full advantage. Mr. Chopra recently published an updated examination manual that will make it easier for the bureau to sue businesses for discrimination without evidence of intent...
Hasbro Inc. rejected calls from an activist investor to spin off its Wizards of the Coast gaming unit and added two directors to its board, setting up a proxy battle at its coming annual meeting...
Rival shareholders need to ensure their disagreements put pressure on the insurance giant to improve its performance rather than paralyzing it...
Companies increasingly are looking to fill their boardrooms with experts in areas such as ESG or cybersecurity...
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is seeking two board seats at Kroger Co., pushing the U.S. supermarket giant to make changes among its pork suppliers and to address what Mr. Icahn said was a widening gap between worker and executive pay...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended geopolitics and, for many in the West, provoked moral righteousness. For investors who prided themselves on trying to do the right thing with their money, it has revealed fundamental flaws in the booming business of environmental, social and governance investing, known by the acronym ESG...
The SEC is well within its authority to require companies to publicly disclose climate-related risks. Standardizing the reporting will benefit investors and streamline the information-sharing process. Jay Clayton and Patrick McHenry’s argument (“ The SEC’s Climate-Change Overreach ,” op-ed, March 21) that the SEC is creating a national climate policy misrepresents what disclosures do. They give investors information needed to make decisions...