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Jonathan Guthrie is the City editor of the FT, writing and editing Lombard, the agenda-setting column on London-listed businesses and on finance. He has worked for the FT Group for 17 years. For eight years he contributed a weekly column on British business and politics that blended humour with serious comment. His posts have included enterprise editor, Midlands correspondent, UK companies editor, and magazine editor. His more offbeat assignments for the FT have involved wreck diving and bodyguard training.
Jonathan has edited or contributed to books on eurobonds, derivatives, investment management and M&A published by The Economist, International Financing Review and Mercury Asset Management. Before gaining a degree in English and Fine Art at Nottingham University he worked as a ward assistant in a psychiatric secure unit and as a jeep driver for a development project in rural India.
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Melrose defies headwinds with share-driven offer
The price is smack bang in the middle of the 800p-900p range mooted when the bidding battle for lacklustre engineer Charter began in June
Reed’s Armour shields Engstrom from discontent
Seasoned observers of the publisher ponder how well the promotion of Erik Engstrom to chief executive at the end of 2009 is working out
Ringfence timing must not circumscribe a recovery
Pressure for change of the UK banking sector is politically strong, but is in danger of abating as the economy strengthens
Glencore is less a world beater than a world beta
There is a disconnect between rampageous profits and depressed share prices at all the mining behemoths that are reporting results this week
Admiral suffers rear-end shunt in UK underwriting
Group has broken step with the ABI and called for cuts to charges paid to injury lawyers
Stumbling bank shares pose a privatisation teaser
Lenders are today’s fall guys, with the privatisation of public stakes in Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland looking increasingly problematic
Anglo would be wise to leave Macarthur parked
Some investors would like the FTSE 100 miner to make a daring counter offer above the A$4.7bn proffered by Peabody Energy and ArcelorMittal
UK tech sector set to lose its Autonomy, lucratively
The proposed $10bn purchase of Autonomy by Hewlett-Packard, at an impressive premium of more than 60 per cent, would trigger handsome pay-outs
City’s footy aversion obliges Man U to try Singapore
Glazers would be crazy to curb the sale proceeds available for reducing debts of more than £500m by re-listing in London
The very thin end of the wedge
Stretched national budgets and banker bashing have puffed wind into the sails of the transaction tax plan
