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  • Saturday, 31 October, 2020
    Agricultural production
    Thanksgiving turkeys: wattle happen Premium

    Pandemic rules mean gatherings will be smaller this November, which looks bad for sales of gobblers

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  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    National Westminster Bank PLC
    NatWest: the fat of the land Premium

    Some banks are already clamouring for permission to restart dividends, but NatWest shares the authorities’ wariness

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Vaccine bonds: capital idea Premium

    Investors are showing an unprecedented willingness to engage in social issues

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Companies
    Best of Lex: The Great Divide Premium

    Corporate earnings, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Santander, Canadian oil, Dunkin’/Inspire, LVMH

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Amazon.com
    Amazon: it all ads up Premium

    The ecommerce giant’s advertising business is growing faster than the company as a whole

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    LVMH
    LVMH/Bernard Arnault: toast at Tiffany’s Premium

    In the end, the jeweller’s shareholders get almost the price they bargained for

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse: hardship posting Premium

    Not even a plan to reinstate dividends could win chief executive Thomas Gottstein support

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Sanofi SA
    Sanofi/flu vaccines: lots of shots Premium

    If vaccination becomes a habit, strong demand would be more than a blip

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Standard Chartered PLC
    StanChart: tangible disappointment Premium

    Shares have fallen, but being Asia-focused has given the bank a better shot at decent profits

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  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Corporate earnings
    Earnings in the time of coronavirus: the dissonance of blowout profits Premium

    The fourth quarter will yield fewer pleasant surprises

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Aircraft manufacturing
    Boeing: military complex Premium

    The aviation group’s defence business are helping to offset its troubles in the commercial aircraft sector

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Next PLC
    Next: on message Premium

    The high street fashion chain is dialling back on the pessimism but only marginally

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Golf
    Callaway/Topgolf: no laying up Premium

    It is a big bet on the idea the industry’s past trends will resume their trajectory in a year or two

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Technology sector
    Lex Midweek Letter: tech crunch Premium

    What to expect as Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook prepare to report quarterly earnings

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Investment Banking
    Deutsche Bank: extinction rebellion Premium

    Third-quarter revenues increased 43% but the difficulty is in repeating the performance

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Sony Corp
    Sony: angels and demons Premium

    Japanese electronics group has hurdles to overcome, but is likely to keep growth ticking up

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    American International Group Inc
    AIG: war story Premium

    Separating life insurance arm shows group’s turnround is not going as planned

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Commodities
    Ghanaian gold/Agyapa: Accra forfeits accruals Premium

    Investors will be taking on sovereign risk, but the balance of risk seems to lie with the country

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Banco Santander SA
    Santander/bank payouts: one size constricts all Premium

    European lenders are value stocks rendered increasingly valueless by dividend curbs

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC: deposit slip Premium

    Charging fees to savers could do more harm than good

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Semiconductors
    AMD/Xilinx: stock take Premium

    Bolting on specialist Xilinx will hand chipmaker AMD a needed source of profits

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Dunkin’/Inspire: the hole truth Premium

    Private equity-backed group in talks to acquire doughnut brand for nearly $9bn

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    Ant Group
    Ant IPO: earth-shaking arthropod Premium

    Dual listing of payments group is priced to go. Long-term investors should ask why

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    SAP SE
    SAP: cloud busting Premium

    Recurring revenues are better than licence sales — they are more predictable

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    Biotech
    Bayer/gene therapy: blurred visionary Premium

    Paying up to $4bn for US-based biotech is unlikely to be transformational

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