The Royal Bank holds its Canadian automotive, industrials and transportation conference this week. Scheduled to appear are Canadian National Railway Co. on Tuesday and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. on Wednesday. The railways are in a takeover fight for U.S. railway Kansas City Southern.Statistics Canada will release is consumer price index for April on Wednesday. The annual pace of inflation picked up in March as prices were compared with a year ago during the start of the pandemic.
The Canadian Club Toronto is hosting a virtual event with Grant Vingoe, chair and chief executive of the Ontario Securities Commission on Wednesday, followed by an even Thursday with Ian Scott, chair and CEO of the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission.