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    Jonathan Guthrie

    Head of Lex

    Jonathan Guthrie is an associate editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on global capital. The award-winning Lex team analyses businesses and investment trends from London, New York, San Francisco and Seoul. Aside from Lex, Jonathan writes regular FT columns on world finance and nature.

    For six years he was city editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the square mile and corporate Britain. He has also been enterprise editor, midlands correspondent and UK companies editor. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud.

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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      LexCompanies
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      Plus, OpenAI, Intel, UK pensions, Italian banks, Julius Baer, Virgin Money

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      Who — or what — killed the sparrows?

      It’s easy to blame the sparrowhawk for the reduction in their numbers but there are other, non-animal world culprits

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      Plus, British Land, Walmart, Carvana, BT, Berkshire Hathaway, Burberry, Manchester City

      An image from a US magazine advert for Ethyl Corp, c1950s
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Inside BusinessFinancial & markets regulation
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      Basis trade shows challenge for watchdogs is to understand hedge funds and prime brokers as symbiotic organisms

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      The Lex Newsletter: workplaces in Hell Premium content

      Plus, multi-managers, Square Mile, Arm, SoftBank, AI, Nintendo, M&S

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    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      ReviewBooks
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      Ghosts, ghouls and to-whit to-whoos

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      Illustration of owls
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      Illustration of several birds including two albatrosses mating
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      House & Home
      Corvids: smarter than the average chatbot?

      Magpies, crows and kin have passed several tests of sentience — in that regard, they may be one step ahead of AI machines

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      Generation Rent is at the sharp end of rate rises

      Landlords with buy-to-rent mortgages are passing on their pain

      Pedestrians walk past the front window of an estate agent advertising properties to let and to sell in Lavender Hill, in South London
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
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      Plus, Tata, BlackRock, Alzheimer’s drugs, China developers, Shein, Indian banks

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    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
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      Plus, Exxon, BP, Axa, Sam Altman, Kingspan, Apple, Geely Auto, Ant Group

      Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist, blends himself into the background in front of a shelf lined with comic books as part of a series of performances in Caracas in November 2013
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