Lex | Financial Times

Accessibility help Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer

Saturday, 8 May, 2021

Bitcoin
Carbon counter: bitcoin is the ultimate hot investment Premium
Cryptocurrency’s high energy consumption will continue to provide fuel for detractors
Friday, 7 May, 2021

UK banks
Barclays/Edward Bramson: activist’s surrender should not surprise Premium
Bramson wasted money on his ticket to ride out a governance fight
Friday, 7 May, 2021

Companies
Best of Lex: a trippy-dippy week Premium
Mental health/psychedelic drugs, Darktrace, Unicaja/Liberbank, UniCredit, BlackRock and more
Friday, 7 May, 2021

Media
Singapore Press: media split leaves residual residential value Premium
Separation means the company will be free from strict local media regulations
Friday, 7 May, 2021

Intuit Inc
Intuit: Covid sales bump for the TurboTax maker Premium
US financial software maker is best placed to benefit from tax return pain
Friday, 7 May, 2021

IPOs
Darktrace/UK IPOs: shoes for every occasion Premium
Unpredictable nature of listing process means ‘greenshoes’ will remain required footwear
Thursday, 6 May, 2021

Uber Technologies Inc
Uber: it’s a worker’s company now Premium
Ride-hailing and food delivery service faces an ascendant worker class
Thursday, 6 May, 2021

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA
AB InBev/Brito: new boss Michel Doukeris needs to water down debt Premium
Focus will need to be on brands and innovation in the next phase
Thursday, 6 May, 2021

UniCredit SpA
UniCredit/Andrea Orcel: MPS deal presents high flyer with a dilemma Premium
The question is how much the government will pay UniCredit to take the historic lender away
Promoted Content
Thursday, 6 May, 2021

Nintendo Co Ltd
Nintendo: record year presses play on high sales targets Premium
Global return to normality plus group’s ageing Switch console make the outlook more challenging
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021

Electric vehicles
GM/electric cars: love me, love my truck Premium
GM lacks first-mover advantage. But it does have scale and mass production expertise
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021

Renewable energy
Wind turbines: market sees through a stormy period Premium
Vestas and Siemens Gamesa have held on to their profitability outlooks
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021

Croda International PLC
Croda/chemicals: quiet giant has a winning formula Premium
The UK group will keep up its momentum so long as it stays focused on innovation and fast-growth sectors
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021

European banks
Unicaja/Liberbank: Spanish bank consolidation yet to be tested Premium
Tie-up will create cost savings but a lot is riding on an ambitious integration programme
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021

ESG investing
Palm oil/BlackRock: passive strategy is at odds with ESG stance Premium
Ingredient’s omnipresence exposes avowedly ethical investors to charges of hypocrisy
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021

Big tech
Lex Midweek Letter: Big Tech’s unstoppable earnings machine Premium
Pace of growth continues to astonish and it seems only regulators can spoil the party
Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

Pfizer Inc
Pfizer/coronavirus: no one-hit wonder Premium
Pharma group wants to develop versions of its vaccine that can fight variants of coronavirus
Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore/IPO: sequencer has Woodford in its DNA Premium
Investors should focus on the science, setting aside market froth
Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

Professional services
KPMG/Interpath: restructuring industry rejig gives independents a chance Premium
This is a promising time for both the sector and its would-be vendors
Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

Diamonds and gemstones
Synthetic diamonds/Pandora: the ultimate high-pressure sale Premium
Demand for lab-made gems is expected to grow at twice the pace of mined ones
Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

Media
Vivendi/Mediaset: tycoons’ TV tussle cost them too much time Premium
The moral of the tale is that, when business imitates popular culture, investors lose out
Monday, 3 May, 2021

Verizon Communications Inc
Verizon/Apollo: hanging up on online media dreams Premium
Proceeds from sale will give telecoms group more cash to fund its 5G network expansion
Monday, 3 May, 2021

Electric vehicles
Electric vehicles: charging shares are starting to buzz Premium
Both charging point operators and equipment manufacturers promise rich returns to investors
Monday, 3 May, 2021

Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Warren Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway: coming clean at age 90 Premium
Oracle of Omaha says investing in power and utilities is making the company greener
Monday, 3 May, 2021

Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc
Japanese utilities/Tepco: nuclear clean-up has no end in sight Premium
Investors are growing a little less discerning

Recommended

LexCoronavirus economic impact5 min

Coronavirus: the great disruptor | Lex Megatrends

Lex in-depth: how carbon prices will transform industry Premium

News in-depthThe Big Read

Lex in depth: Examining the slave trade — ‘Britain has a debt to repay’