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Jonathan Guthrie

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Jonathan Guthrie is an associate editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on companies and investment. 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. Aside from Lex, he contributes occasionally to the opinion pages of the FT.

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  • Monday, 27 August, 2018
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    Older staff are right to stick around at work

    Ageism is never acceptable in the office and is also bad for productivity

  • Friday, 24 August, 2018
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    Slack, Farfetch, Tinder, bitcoin, Sberbank, Saudi Aramco, GSK/Horlicks and more

  • Friday, 17 August, 2018
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    Time for Musk to take a timeout at Tesla

    The business could be run better by someone who is not working a 120-hour week

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    ITV, Nine/Fairfax, China IPOs/Pinduoduo, Sonos, Segro, LVMH, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank and more

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    HNA, Sinochem/ChemChina, Glencore, Danske, Google, Vedanta, Yellow Cake and more

  • Friday, 1 June, 2018
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    Bright young things flock to a withering profession

    What could possibly tempt today’s graduates to apply for jobs as investment bankers?

  • Friday, 1 June, 2018
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    Best of Lex: your weekly round-up Premium

    Japan Display, Dixons Carphone, KKR/BMC, Disney/Fox/Comcast, Sorrell and Faangs

  • Wednesday, 16 May, 2018
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    Lex letter from London: Mysterious Sir Martin Premium

    WPP/Glass Lewis, Carillion/Big Four, HKEX/LME, Vodafone, sports betting and blockchain

  • Friday, 27 April, 2018
    Best of Lex: your weekly round-up

    Facebook, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse, Santander, Amazon, Walmat-Flipkart and more

  • Wednesday, 18 April, 2018
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    Lex Letter from London: Break-ups Premium

    WPP, Whitbread, Shire/Takeda, sterling rebound and more

  • Tuesday, 27 March, 2018
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    Lex argues that GKN shareholders must accept hostile offer from Melrose

  • Wednesday, 21 March, 2018
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  • Friday, 16 March, 2018
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  • Friday, 9 March, 2018
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    Lady Judge had already told business group she would ‘step aside’ during investigation

  • Tuesday, 6 March, 2018
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    Some greetings are just a bit too in-your-face, literally and metaphorically

  • Friday, 23 February, 2018
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