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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
    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

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    The Top LineESG investing
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    We have worked out how to make money from an infinite resource

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Warren Buffett
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  • 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

  • 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
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    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
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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