The Lombard Review

Business

Companies, earnings, deals and capital allocation: how corporate balance sheets are responding to rates and tariffs.

Business

CrowdStrike's outage: who pays?

Contract caps shift operational loss

Special Report

Prime Day: The ad business behind the discounts

Ad revenue subsidises discounts

Business

Who actually pays a 10% tariff?

Gross-margin exposure across importers

Business

Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company

Single-stock weight in index funds

Tech

Nvidia's boom: peak or plateau?

Hyperscaler capex as customer concentration

Business

Apple's record $110bn buyback

Record repurchase at high cost of capital

Business

Meta spends more, investors flee

Capex raise without revenue guide

Business

Bank profits hold up in a higher-for-longer world

Asset repricing offsets deposit costs

Business

Reddit's IPO lets the public in

Directed shares and day-one pop

Business

Big Tech is now in the power business

Power contracts enter tech balance sheets

Business

Capital One's real prize in Discover: the network

Closed-loop network captures interchange

Business

NYCB's office loans come due

Crossing $100bn raises capital needs

Special Report

Valentine's Day: The chocolate crisis

Input shock vs pricing power

Business

Meta pays its first dividend

Payout initiation as maturity signal

Markets & Finance

Seven stocks, almost a third of the market

Index weight concentration as systemic risk

Special Report

New Year's Eve: A dead year for deals

Financing costs freeze deals

U.S.

Japan wants US Steel. Washington may say no

National-security review discounts premium

Business

Companies rush to borrow before rates fall

Issuers term out as spreads tighten

Special Report

Black Friday: Retailers finally have the right amount of stock

Lean stock restores margin

Tech

OpenAI's boardroom drama and Microsoft's $13bn exposure

Nonprofit control vs investor claims

Business

WeWork's collapse: how leases became debt

Chapter 11 sheds lease liabilities

Special Report

Halloween: The zombie companies are rising

Interest coverage below one

Tech

Alphabet spends more, grows less, and pays for it

Deceleration plus capex compresses multiple

Business

Banks' profit peak is here

AOCI drag vs rising funding costs

Business

The UAW strike's bill for Detroit

Legacy labour-cost shock to OEM margins

Business

Arm's IPO: scarcity is the selling point

Low float inflates valuation

Markets & Finance

The Treasury needs more money, and companies will feel it

Treasury duration supply raises IG cost

Markets & Finance

Why banks are selling their best loans

Capital relief via asset sales

Special Report

Prime Day: What Amazon's discounts say about inflation

Discounting confirms goods deflation

Markets & Finance

Banks passed the stress test. Now comes the real test

Endgame RWA inflation vs buyback capacity

Business

Why company defaults are creeping up

Default cycle via interest burden, not covenants

Business

The debt deal that changes almost nothing

Spending caps vs structural deficit

Special Report

Memorial Day: The debt deal is done. Now comes the bill

Ceiling resolution reprices bills

Tech

Nvidia's forecast stuns Wall Street

Guidance shock re-rates AI infrastructure

Business

Office towers face a $1.5trn refinancing problem

Refinancing at higher cap rates impairs equity

Business

First Republic's final quarter: $100bn walks out the door

Outflows without par buyer force resolution

Business

The real cost of the banking crisis: customers want interest

Non-interest deposits migrate to paid accounts

Markets & Finance

Why Credit Suisse bondholders lost everything before shareholders

Write-down ahead of equity breaks capital stack

Special Report

Super Bowl: $7m for 30 seconds, and what it says about confidence

Ad spend as confidence gauge

Business

Banks' easy profits are about to end

NII peak as funding costs reprice

Business

Tech's layoffs are really about profits

Opex cuts replace growth capex

Special Report

Boxing Day: The $816bn problem of returned presents

Reverse logistics erode margins

Business

The debt bill companies have pushed to 2024

Closed HY market pushes refinancing into 2024–25

Business

The companies that only survive on cheap money

Floating-rate coverage ratios at 8% HY

Business

Retailers ordered for a boom that never came

Markdowns convert inventory glut into margin loss

Special Report

Thanksgiving: Why your turkey cost 20% more

Avian-flu supply shock hits food margins

Special Report

Singles' Day: Alibaba stops showing its numbers

Disclosure silence signals weak consumer

Business

Meta's spending spree just cost it a quarter of its value

Capex guide without revenue path crushes multiple

Personal Finance

Rich on paper, short of cash: the pension paradox

DB schemes liquidate illiquid assets to meet margin

Business

Buybacks just got more expensive

1% excise plus costlier debt vs earnings yield