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Jonathan Guthrie

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Jonathan Guthrie is an associate editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on global capital. The award-winning Lex team analyses businesses and investment trends from London, New York, San Francisco and Seoul. Aside from Lex, Jonathan writes regular FT columns on world finance and nature.

For six years he was city editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the square mile and corporate Britain. He has also been enterprise editor, midlands correspondent and UK companies editor. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud.

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  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    LexUK labour disputes
    The Lex Newsletter: call this a winter of discontent? Premium content

    International investors in the UK need not worry that the country has returned to the bad old days of 1978-79

  • Monday, 9 January, 2023
    Inside BusinessGold
    Why gold is the bright stuff for would-be sanctions busters

    Bullion can be traded more easily beyond US oversight than dollars

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: cyclical trend will remain no friend in 2023 Premium content

    Plus, Paragon, Cineworld, Silvergate, Moderna, SpaceX, Luxshare, Salesforce

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    House & Home
    Why Fido is not a wolf in dog’s clothing

    ‘My own belief that wolves and dogs are separated only by a thin varnish of domestication crumbled recently. I have Seamus to thank for that’

  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    Inside BusinessInvestment Banking
    Credit Suisse First Boston 2.0: what could possibly go right?

    The bottom-of-the-cycle timing might be right for an independent investment bank

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: The City of London is becoming a heritage theme park Premium content

    Plus, crypto regulation, Unilever, Vodafone, Numis, US rail industry

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: Big money does not make football a business Premium content

    PSG, Juventus, Twitter, Elon Musk, Casino, UK house prices, Wise, Hong Kong IPOs

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    House & Home
    Why robins don’t deserve their thuggish reputation

    That fluffy robin in your garden needs to be as hard as nails — but is he really a killer?

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: China’s pandemic pandemonium threatens western business Premium content

    Plus, Foxconn, China, Tesla, Lygend, oil tankers, Turkey, Credit Suisse, FTX

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Ukraine boosts fortunes of war for arms makers Premium content

    Plus, FTX, China property, Target, Experian, Richemont, UK economy

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    Management
    Resist the tech wizards’ spell

    A business that wants to foster innovation in the use of data has to adopt a user-friendly approach to IT, where expertise is shared

  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    LexCompanies
    FTX collapse rhymes aptly with tulip mania Premium content

    Plus, Coinbase, COP27, energy transition, Centrica, Ithaca, Primark

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: US should be a brave penguin with an energy transition plan Premium content

    Plus, Orsted, BP, Brazil, BNP Paribas, Adidas, Blackstone, J&J, Twitter, pickleball

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    House & Home
    Looking for love on the web — it’s mating season for spiders

    Autumn gardens are full of their shiny, sticky webs. Whether they fascinate or frighten, spiders loom large in the human psyche

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: Tech rout — it’s really Zuck’s Premium content

    Plus, cryptos, Amazon, Twitter, Samsung, Infosys, Barclays

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    The Lex Newsletter: Truss’s ship of fools sails business into choppy waters Premium content

    Plus, UK property, gilts, European gas, UK bank tax, Blackstone, Enel, Ukraine bonds

  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
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    UK banks face a sensitive problem: fatter profits from rising rates

    Bonanza contrasts with financial stress for some mortgage borrowers

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    LexUK politics & policy
    Kwarteng vs Bailey: how The Sexy Tortoise vanquished Mr Cliff Edge Premium content

    Plus, gilts, UK banks, M&A advisers, Socionext, chip embargo

  • Friday, 7 October, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: Bailey’s bind is the consequence of Kwarteng’s unreassurance Premium content

    Plus, Credit Suisse, UK retailers, UK banks, dollar strength

  • Friday, 7 October, 2022
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    Children love gathering fossils and shells on a beach or pine cones and conkers in woodland

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
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    Plus, Tesla, Fed tightening, Instacart, Spacs, sterling/dollar, UK energy, Mike Ashley

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: banking is a reliable unreliable employer Premium content

    Plus, UBS, hedge funds, Serco, Shell, energy crisis, Inditex, US fast food

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    The elegance of the dragonfly

    The heatwave has been unkind to wetland life, but the spectacle of this creature still brings an inescapable frisson

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
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    Plus Italian bonds, Man Group, hedge funds vs private equity, Glencore, Exxon and Chevron

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Gardens
    Our £135bn debt to the humble bee

    If given a monetary value, its contribution to our wellbeing would be hefty

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