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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
      Forget ESG. Bring on the BS Index

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

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Warren Buffett
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      Berkshire Hathaway boss seems to have far less in common with his new bank investment

    • 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
      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
      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

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      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

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      The Top LineUS financial regulation
      Federal Reserve stock trading is dangerous

      Officials should not be buying and selling individual company shares

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      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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