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Wednesday, 17 November, 2021

Lex
Lex Letter from London: the City’s rivalry with Amsterdam deepens Premium content
Trading and clearing may be flowing across the water but investors prefer companies to stay in Britain
Wednesday, 27 October, 2021

LexCOP26
Lex Letter from London: all aboard the bus for COP26 Premium content
Centuries on from the industrial revolution, polluting activities form the UK’s corporate backbone even today
Friday, 10 September, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: bids, bauxite and bitcoin Premium content
EasyJet | PayPal | Pimco | 888 | Coinbase
Friday, 27 August, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: empty shelves and fantasy M&A Premium content
Labour shortages | Maersk | GM | Afghanistan minerals | Sainsbury’s | Virgin Orbit
Thursday, 8 July, 2021

Inside BusinessUK manufacturing
Welsh chip deal will show how UK’s view on foreign owners is evolving
Sale of small factory that makes silicon wafers has been called in for review, despite few signs of national security risk
Friday, 2 July, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: Up, up and away — $76 oil, Facebook at $1tn and soaring Asia banker pay Premium content
UK roaming charges | Amazon | Tesla | US banks
Wednesday, 9 June, 2021

Lex
Lex Letter from London: Arm wrestling Premium content
A sale to Nvidia would most likely result in the British chip designer dancing to the US tech company’s tune
Thursday, 20 May, 2021

Rail
UK’s new model railway is likely to serve the public poorly
Latest revamp of network offers simpler system but contains questionable forecasts
Friday, 7 May, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: a trippy-dippy week Premium content
Mental health/psychedelic drugs, Darktrace, Unicaja/Liberbank, UniCredit, BlackRock and more
Friday, 26 March, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: staunching the flows of trade, money and chat Premium content
Suez Canal, Intel, Chinese delistings, Facebook, Leonardo/DRS and more
Friday, 12 March, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: stock market deliveries and funky assets Premium content
Coupang, Deliveroo, Greensill/Apollo, lithium/electric vehicles, CBDCs and more
Monday, 8 March, 2021

UK immigration
Life in the UK is not easy for former Hong Kong residents
Those fleeing China’s crackdown face bureaucratic hurdles and high property prices
Friday, 5 February, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: politicians and professional services back in the game Premium content
Robey Warshaw/George Osborne, Kirkland & Ellis, McKinsey, Silver/WallStreetBets, Robinhood, Amazon/Jeff Bezos
Thursday, 28 January, 2021

LombardDiageo PLC
Runaway tequila sales make Diageo well worth a shot
Lockdown cocktails help shake up world’s biggest distiller; rejigged US split plan leaves Prudential looking wounded
Friday, 15 January, 2021

Lex
Best of Lex: medical and political jabs Premium content
Hong Kong delistings, WhatsApp, US tech/Trump, Sanofi, Moonpig, Dr Martens, Roblox
Monday, 11 January, 2021

LombardLombard
Signature Aviation’s bid battle cruises towards a smooth landing
Bidders circle private jet services group; Ladbrokes owner Entain bruised not broken as another CEO exits
Monday, 21 December, 2020

ReviewNon-Fiction
Why Japan’s more female future may not be more equal
A tour of the country and its ‘womenomics’ concludes with a prescription for change
Friday, 4 December, 2020

ReviewFiction
There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job — a disquisition on the value of work
Kikuko Tsumura’s novel about workplace nihilism is both a smart and timely read
Wednesday, 2 December, 2020

Lex
Lex Letter from London: Et in Arcadia, his ego Premium content
UK high street shops were a dying breed long before coronavirus came on the scene
Friday, 6 November, 2020

Lex
Best of Lex: the week that wasn’t Premium content
J Sainsbury/Argos, US assets/election, Ant IPO/CCP, US health insurers, US tech stocks, PayPal
Thursday, 29 October, 2020

LombardShell plc
Lifting Shell’s dividend does not change long-term game
Oil group hopes to win back investors | Weighing up Horta-Osório’s legacy at Lloyds
Friday, 16 October, 2020

Lex
Best of Lex: banks, shops and going pop Premium content
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, AO World, Just Eat, Big Hit Entertainment and more
Friday, 18 September, 2020

Lex
Best of Lex: politics, short-sellers and other spots of bother Premium content
TikTok/Oracle, The Hut Group, Lloyd’s of London, Nvidia/China, Nikola/Hindenburg
Friday, 7 August, 2020

Lex
Best of Lex: M&A countries Premium content
Aviva, Commerzbank, Glencore, Blackstone/Ancestry, Teladoc/Livongo, Siemens Healthineers/Varian and more
Wednesday, 29 July, 2020

ReviewFiction
People from My Neighbourhood — tales both magical and macabre
These offbeat short stories by award-winning Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami are fairy tales in the best tradition of the Brothers Grimm