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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, 23 October, 2020
    The Top LineCorporate earnings
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    The Americans are trailing in the third-quarter earnings season — for now

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
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    Seven years of court battles have left Eric Ben-Artzi with no money but a new crusade

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

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

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
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    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
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    Investment bank critics swing and miss

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

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
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    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

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

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
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    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

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

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    The week business waved goodbye to the V-shape recovery

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

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    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

  • Friday, 17 April, 2020
    The Top LineCompanies
    Corporate bailouts need more of us to share the pain — and gains

    Governments should take more equity when they rescue the largest companies from collapse

  • Friday, 3 April, 2020
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    Some holidaymakers can’t wait for their next cruise 

    Operators such as Carnival have been battered by coronavirus but passengers are surprisingly stoical

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    BlackRock’s message to companies battling the fallout from the disease was ill-timed

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    The ‘greatest bankers’ won’t save us this time

    While Trump and Wall Street’s great and good patted each other on the back, the central figure to thank was missing

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