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  • 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

  • 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

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    The Top LineCredit Suisse Group AG
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  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Warren Buffett
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  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    The Top LinePhilip Morris International Inc
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    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

  • 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’

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    The Top LineLuxury goods
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    The irresistible rise of LVMH shows this crisis is different

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    The Top LineSpecial purpose acquisition companies
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  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    The Top LineTerry Smith
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    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

  • 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’

  • 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

  • Friday, 22 October, 2021
    The Top LineCoronavirus pandemic
    Polarisation clouds the role for Regeneron’s Covid treatment

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

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    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

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    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    The Top LineCoronavirus pandemic
    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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    The Top LineOnlyFans
    The hardcore problem of payments in porn

    Tougher rules from the likes of Mastercard are being applied unevenly

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    The Top LineProperty sector
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    Commercial landlords insist employees are heading back even as companies such as Twitter shut their doors

  • Friday, 23 July, 2021
    The Top LineUnilever PLC
    Ben & Jerry’s gives Unilever an ice cream headache

    The UK group is trying to distance itself from its brand’s Israel policy. It doesn’t wash

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