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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 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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    But control them in an environmentally friendly way — and acknowledge that molluscs also have their merits

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    Inside BusinessWar in Ukraine
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    Capital-raising tool used in second world war should be deployed to aid the country

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    The fastest animal on the planet is a challenging house guest, pooping profusely and shrieking like a banshee

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: ‘business as usual’ is a relative concept in wartime Premium content

    Atlantia | Aareal Bank | HP | Toshiba | Channel 4 | sanctions | asset managers

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    The acronym jams together disparate and sometimes contradictory objectives

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: can you pass the US immigration service’s financial pop quiz? Premium content

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  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: Ukraine war deals body blow to globalisation of capital Premium content

    Oil supply chain | Peabody Energy | P&O Ferries | Thyssenkrupp | UK shale gas | China stocks

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
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  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
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    The Lex Newsletter: Europe’s Faustian pact with Putin has unravelled spectacularly Premium content

    Russian gas | superyachts | Russia bondholders | oil embargo | commodities traders

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
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    Economic warfare against Vladimir Putin cannot be fine-tuned to spare the energy sector

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
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    Food prices | energy | sanctions | Donald Trump | China junk bonds | Relx | Barclays

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    The Top LineSwift
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    Failure to kick Russia out of the global payments system exposes split in the west’s common purpose

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
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    Ericsson | emerging market debt | Glencore | Goldman | Raiffeisen | City lawyers | sin stocks

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
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    Gardeners’ challenge: let’s go peat-free by 2023

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  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
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  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
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  • Monday, 3 January, 2022
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  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
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    From butterflies to bats, foxes to parakeets, the creatures we encounter in our daily lives enrich our existence and remind us of our place in the world

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
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    Stagecoach | Octopus Energy | Ofgem | Samsara | SenseTime | BT | Rentokil | Santa jobs market

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
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    Enraptured by raptors: the return of birds of prey

    The resurgence of these splendid creatures is heartening — just don’t throw them scraps from your turkey dinner

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