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  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Financial & markets regulation
    Greensill: in the shadows Premium

    Finance group is a minnow but provides a useful illustration of where risks can lie

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Aggreko PLC
    Aggreko: not so perfidious Albion Premium

    Albion’s main risk is that other PE bidders may have spotted the same opportunity

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Jonathan Guthrie
    Best of Lex: of super-deductions, Spac surges and category errors Premium

    UK Budget/corporation tax, offices after Covid, UK listings/Spacs, Square/Jack Dorsey, and more

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Travel & leisure industry
    Motel stocks: checking in Premium

    Never mind the missing bellhops and poolside service, investors should seek out US roadside chains

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Agricultural commodities
    Pork ETF: piggy bank Premium

    Penghua’s fund, and other vehicles that will follow, will give investors easy access to fat profits

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Square Inc
    Square/Jack Dorsey: A to Z Premium

    Square does not need a music service. But it does represent a real challenge to traditional banks

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Melrose Industries PLC
    Melrose/executive pay: engineered returns Premium

    Sale of Nortek is welcome news for directors’ remuneration

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    BT Group Plc
    UK budget/BT: deductive logic Premium

    Telecoms group is one winner of Sunak’s ‘super deduction’ but boost will only be temporary

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Singapore
    Singapore offices: notice to vacate Premium

    Long-lasting change is on the cards as people continue to work from home

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Technology sector
    Okta/Auth0: identity cheque Premium

    Authentication software is a growing sector though rewards may not appear for some time

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Private equity
    Las Vegas Sands: hit me Premium

    Apollo Global Management has announced purchase of the Venetian resort

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Hiscox Ltd
    Hiscox: courtroom drama Premium

    Reduced exposure to risky US cyber and casualty lines should minimise expensive future surprises

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    UK Budget
    UK Budget/corporate tax: Sunak’s £17bn City raid Premium

    The chancellor has sent a message to companies to expect no more favours

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto: the spare chair Premium

    Investors ignore the instability at the top at their peril

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Industrial metals
    China/commodities: blue steel Premium

    Public infrastructure spending, and emission targets, will determine the earnings trend for local steelmakers

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Private equity
    Lex Letter from New York: private equity’s high nursing home death rates Premium

    Study finds PE management led to 10% increase in short-term mortality of Medicare patients

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    London fights for its future
    UK listings/Spacs: the crown duals Premium

    City-boosting proposals are not enough to offset lack of EU financial services trade deal

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Danone SA
    Danone: half measures Premium

    Accountability, sustainability and diversity are increasingly — and rightly — sought by big investors

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Target Corp.
    Target: model student Premium

    Higher margin in-house lines both pad profits and act as a bulwark against Amazon’s reach

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Greensill Capital
    Greensill/Credit Suisse: finance dance Premium

    The finance company’s problems are a blow for the Swiss bank’s chief who is keen to wipe the slate clean

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Renishaw PLC
    Renishaw: to be precise Premium

    The co-founders will have to deal with close scrutiny after putting business up for sale

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Zoom Video Communications Inc
    Zoom: venturing out Premium

    The video call software company has plans for an independent future

  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
    Space industry
    Rocket Lab/Spire Global: Spacs, the final frontier Premium

    Space companies are a moonshot borne aloft by the rocket fuel of cheap money

  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
    Trustpilot
    Trustpilot: approval seeking Premium

    Site must satisfy public appetite for honesty and corporate hunger for promotion

  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
    Travel & leisure industry
    Cruise liners: fear and floating Premium

    Vessels offer a leveraged bet on travel recovery but it is better to stay on the dock and wave them off

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