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    Tom Braithwaite

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    Tom Braithwaite manages the FT's news coverage. Based in London, he was previously the companies editor. Prior roles include: Lex columnist in San Francisco, US banking editor in New York and reporting positions in Washington, London and Paris.
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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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