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Andrew Hill is an Associate Editor of the FT. He has been City Editor of the FT and editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance since September 2006.
He was the FT’s Financial Editor from June 2005 to September 2006, with overall responsibility for coverage of companies and markets. Before becoming Financial Editor, he was the FT’s Comment & Analysis Editor, in charge of the paper’s opinion and features pages.
From 1999 to 2003, he was the FT’s New York Bureau Chief. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as foreign news editor, UK companies reporter and correspondent in Brussels and Milan. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1987 with a first-class degree in English.
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HSBC’s unique strengths make comparisons difficult
Is HSBC a better canary in the coalmine than other banks? And, if so, has the recent optimism in the sector been overdone?
Carphone’s strategic benefits of paying down debt
By putting its retail business into a joint venture with Best Buy, the US consumer electronics group, Carphone Warehouse, the UK telecoms group, has found a clever way of paving down its ballooning debt pile
Pub investors should be ready for hangover
Stock market overreactions do not come much bigger than the euphoria at Enterprise Inns getting the green light to adopt the tax-efficient Reit structure
Lack of ambition pays off for Lloyds TSB
The bank has a chance to team up with bigger partners who could transform its strategy. But given its record, don’t expect the lender to seize that opportunity
Varley’s chance to show his leadership at Barclays
Banking boards are under intense scrutiny for being too weak. But Barclays has a different problem. Its board is overflowing with strong characters
Smith & Nephew’s management premium in jeopardy
A lot of mergers and acquisitions go wrong – but few quite so spectacularly as Smith & Nephew’s SFr1.1bn (£531m) purchase of Switzerland’s Plus Orthopedics
Three strikes at the supermarkets and they’re not out
A week after the Competition Commission’s 200 pages of ’emerging thinking’ on UK airports comes the 841-page final report into Britain’s grocery market
Time to take a chance in the courts on insider dealing
The FSA’s plan to use more criminal prosecutions in its fight against insider dealing is a risky one
Two AGM questions that HBOS needs to answer
Andy Hornby, chief executive of HBOS, deserves a rough ride at the bank’s annual meeting
Caesar, Sorrell and the curse of the mad March bears
Et tu, Martin? Not since 44BC, when Julius Caesar donned his toga for an ill-fated stroll down to the senate, has March brought such bad news for strong leaders
