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  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    The Top LineBig tech
    Big Tech got the pandemic wrong but one company emerged on top

    Apple is the only one of the bunch to avoid mass job cuts so far

    Mark Zuckerberg
  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    The Top LineCredit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse bankers learn to love their new boss

    Scepticism about Michael Klein is being replaced with bonus anticipation

    Michael Klein
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    The Top LineFund management
    How Goldman’s derivatives saved a pension scheme

    Liability-driven investing has been pilloried but the strategy has worked for WHSmith

    A WHSmith outlet in London
  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    The Top LineMergers & Acquisitions
    French investors first in the queue at the UK’s rummage sale

    A flurry of buyers from across the Channel will be joined by dollar-rich US rivals

    LVMH boss Bernard Arnault with French president Emmanuel Macron
  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    The Top LineProperty sector
    Who escapes the great mortgage reset?

    Higher interest rates make refinancing an increasingly grim prospect for homeowners and businesses

    For sale signs in West Hampstead in London in 1989
  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    The Top LineCredit Suisse Group AG
    The Swiss blogger with the market-moving story of the week

    Tale about an unlikely combination between State Street and Credit Suisse left many looking credulous

    A Credit Suisse sign outside a branch in Geneva
  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    The Top LineESG investing
    Forget ESG. Bring on the BS Index

    We have worked out how to make money from an infinite resource

    Common yellow dung fly standing on a cow pat
  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Warren Buffett
    Why on earth did Warren Buffett swap Wells Fargo for Citigroup?

    Berkshire Hathaway boss seems to have far less in common with his new bank investment

    Warren Buffett drinking Cherry Coke
  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    The Top LinePhilip Morris International Inc
    Philip Morris has resolved big tobacco’s burning issue

    Even if its $16bn investment in Swedish Match disappoints, annual cigarette sales of 600bn provide decent insurance

    Snus pouches
  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    The Top LineRetail & Consumer industry
    The recession is coming — and CEOs feel fine

    From bikini waxes to burglar alarms, companies are strangely bullish

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    The Top LineEY
    Less work for EY auditors? What about more accountability

    The Big Four firm’s German branch has a dubious recipe to avoid a repeat of Wirecard

    EY’s Munich office
  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    The Top LineCovid-19 vaccines
    ‘We are drowning in vaccine.’ What will revive the market for Covid jabs?

    Moderna’s chief says there is ‘massive oversupply’

    A healthcare worker prepares a dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    The Top LineLuxury goods
    What did you do in the great pandemic? Bought handbags

    The irresistible rise of LVMH shows this crisis is different

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    The Top LineSpecial purpose acquisition companies
    We are running out of good companies: list more frauds

    Ravenous investors need to be fed. Bring back Enron

    Luckin Coffee’s Charles Zhengyao Lu at the time of the company’s IPO in New York in May 2019. Luckin is exploring plans to relist
  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    The Top LineTerry Smith
    Terry Smith vs Unilever: which is guilty of mayo madness?

    Criticism of ‘sustainability’ is refreshing but there are good business reasons to redefine Hellmann’s

    A montage of Terry Smith and Hellman’s mayonnaise
  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    The Top LineApple Inc
    Apple is vulnerable to a new breed of activist

    It has become easier for shareholders to push for change if they have a solid record or a trendy theme

    Activist investor Carl Icahn
  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    The Top LineGoldman Sachs Group
    In defence of the revolving door

    The scandal-hit UK could learn a lot from ‘Government Sachs’

    John Rogers
  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    The Top LineTravel & leisure industry
    The road warriors will defeat the beancounters

    Travel budget cuts are unlikely to survive as business rediscovers the benefits of face-to-face meetings

    George Clooney’s character Ryan Bingham lived out of a suitcase on corporate flights in the 2009 film ‘Up in the air’
  • Friday, 22 October, 2021
    The Top LineCoronavirus
    Polarisation clouds the role for Regeneron’s Covid treatment

    Excessive boosterism and US partisan divisions risk undermining a limited but effective therapy

    A Regeneron clinic in Florida
  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    The Top LineCovid-19 vaccines
    Why Pfizer has won the Covid vaccine race but isn’t getting credit

    Company’s pandemic share price gains are dwarfed by those of its rivals despite its jab’s stunning success

    A Pfizer Covid vaccine
  • Friday, 8 October, 2021
    The Top LineUS & Canadian companies
    Top strategies for dealing with ‘disgruntled employees’ — and why they don’t work

    Workers are increasingly defying companies to complain publicly

    Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies at a Senate committee hearing in Washington on Tuesday
  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    The Top LineUS financial regulation
    Federal Reserve stock trading is dangerous

    Officials should not be buying and selling individual company shares

    Jay Powell, Federal Reserve chair
  • Friday, 24 September, 2021
    The Top LineEducation
    Student cheating is now a multibillion-dollar business

    A lawsuit between old-world Pearson and ‘edtech’ Chegg shows new forms of disruption to education

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    The Top LineClimate change
    The life-saving medicine that is killing the planet

    Even with good disclosures and determination, cutting carbon emissions is hard

    An aerosol inhaler used for the treatment of asthma
  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    The Top LineCoronavirus
    Tests can help get workers back to the office

    A fresh push on fast and reliable Covid diagnostics is needed to supplement the vaccine effect

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