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Tom Braithwaite is the companies editor, managing the FT's business coverage. Based in London, he was previously a Lex columnist in San Francisco. Prior roles include US banking editor in New York and reporting positions in Washington, London and Paris.
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  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    The Top LineUK retail industry
    The inadequate trials of Philip Green

    Pilloried retail tycoon has been less aggressive than private equity groups on high street

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    The Top LineBig tech
    Big Tech is giving up on acquisitions

    Changed climate in Washington has a chilling effect on deals

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    The Top LineCoronavirus pandemic
    The next fight is over the new normal

    From ‘humanised pets’ to ‘amenitised offices’, there are competing visions for post-pandemic work

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    The Top LineEquities
    Executives have no excuse for dumping stock

    Pfizer chief’s explanation for selling $5.6m of shares on the day of the vaccine news does not wash

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    The Top LineBig tech
    How a UK supermarket nourished Silicon Valley’s critics

    Ocado’s claim that it is keeping Americans safe with robot warehouses invites regulation

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    The Top LineCorporate earnings
    Can corporate Europe catch the US?

    The Americans are trailing in the third-quarter earnings season — for now

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    InterviewWhistleblowing
    The Deutsche Bank whistleblower who gave up $8m is going broke

    Seven years of court battles have left Eric Ben-Artzi with no money but a new crusade

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    The Top LineGun control
    Gunmakers face a recoil after their sales boom

    The industry is setting sales records before the election, but its fortunes could yet be undone in Washington

  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    The Top LineTechnology sector
    Why Silicon Valley is split on keeping social activism out of the workplace

    Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong has created a storm by banning politics

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  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    The Top LineSnowflake Inc.
    Goldman did not misprice Snowflake’s Buffett-backed IPO

    It is wrong to assume the cloud computing company was hoodwinked by Wall Street just because of its share price pop

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    The Top LineUS & Canadian companies
    The latest big bailout comes with big whistleblower payouts

    Companies are suspected of siphoning off billions in government support. There is one way of catching them

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    The Top LineKlarna AB
    Another Swedish experiment in fintech is a Rorschach test

    Sweden’s coronavirus stance has divided global opinion. Klarna is doing the same

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    The Top LineInvestment Banking
    Investment bank critics swing and miss

    Pandemic changes notion that virtue — and supposedly profits — now lie in safer pursuits

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    The Top LineTechnology sector
    Why is Silicon Valley so chilled about the cold war with China?

    The Nasdaq has minted new records even as the Trump administration broadens its assault on Chinese tech

  • Friday, 31 July, 2020
    The Top LineEastman Kodak Co
    The White House draws a strange lesson from Kodak: cling to the past

    The US is investing $765m to try to pull off an unlikely ‘second act’ for group

  • Friday, 17 July, 2020
    The Top LineTechnology
    The next German tech sensation struggles in a post-Wirecard world

    After Northern Data shares plunged on an anonymous attack, investors need time to decide on the truth

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    FT SeriesCompanies prospering in the pandemic
    Prospering in the pandemic: the market winners

    The latest in a series on companies that have defied the gloom

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    The Top LineTechnology sector
    Trump is the biggest hope for Europe’s weak tech sector

    US work visa ban threatens one of the linchpins of Silicon Valley

  • Friday, 12 June, 2020
    The Top LineHSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC is a citizen of nowhere

    Outcry against bank for backing Hong Kong security law is based on questionable assumptions

  • Friday, 5 June, 2020
    The Top LineUS race relations
    How companies decided that black lives matter

    Apple and Lego are joining anti-racist protests with eye-catching stunts but what about the boardrooms?

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    The Top LineCorporation tax
    Companies and investors are under-estimating the coronavirus tax

    Future earnings will be hit as companies pay the bill for emergency state support

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank’s ties to Donald Trump

    The US president defends his biggest creditor, but the relationship is under fresh scrutiny

  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    The Top LineNetflix Inc
    Netflix is chilling in Iceland but the rest of the world is a problem

    As global lockdowns boost streaming subscriptions, filming freezes spell trouble ahead

  • Friday, 1 May, 2020
    The Top LineGlobal economic recovery
    The week business waved goodbye to the V-shape recovery

    Forget the mini-boom in stocks — the corporate mood is souring

  • Friday, 24 April, 2020
    The Top LineInvestor activism
    Cash hoarders and conglomerates have their day in the sun

    There will be a cost if efficiency is thrown out of the window after the coronavirus pandemic

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