Jonathan Guilford is a Columnist at Reuters Breakingviews. He focuses on business and economics, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets, global markets, and corporate finance, as well as the food and beverage industry. His insights and analyses have been featured in Reuters, Republic World, IndiaWest, HELLENIC SHIPPING NEWS Worldwide, and Reuters Breakingviews.
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By: Jonathan Guilford, Aimee Donnellan
Whether it’s Kraft Heinz weighing a split of its ketchup and hot-dog units or Unilever sealing a $65 bln mayonnaise deal, edible empires are coming apart. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists debate consumer groups’ sticky spot between ultra-budget and luxe rivals.
After beating back the FTC to combine mattress making and retailing, Somnigroup wants to expand further. With a soaring valuation, it is buying Legett & Platt for $2.5 bln to own springs and foam too. It's the sort of market-power move that only gets by sleepy trustbusters.
The $150 bln private-markets leader decried a ‘campaign’ against non-bank lending as a flagship fund for small investors faces outflows. It instead touted an all-fronts AI push, with stakes in Anthropic and OpenAI appealing to new tastes. This too faces an inevitable hype check.
By: Jonathan Guilford, Neil Unmack
With UK 10-year debt yielding 5%, roughly the highest in over a decade, PM Keir Starmer may face brutal losses in local polls. He could then leave, or steer left. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists discuss the impact on the country’s budget policy and markets.
As Apollo weighs selling one $3 bln fund, Blackstone and KKR are helping prop up some of theirs. Rising defaults suggest troubles extend beyond software and big-ticket deals. If basic mid-size business lending is vulnerable, too, there's more reason to question the entire model.
Blackstone will put $5 bln into a servers-for-hire venture with Google that runs on the search giant’s in-house chips, instead of Nvidia’s ubiquitous silicon. Private capital is selling heft as a service: amid fierce tech rivalry, it can offer to bring new winners mainstream.
By: Jonathan Guilford, Aimee Donnellan
Bumper returns promised by the $3.5 trln non-bank lending industry are giving way to rising defaults and falling income. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists discuss how old-guard financiers juiced the trade with extra leverage, and the fresh dangers it poses.
By: Jonathan Guilford, Aimee Donnellan
Elon Musk’s rocket company is preparing for a stock market take-off. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists debate how the Tesla boss explains the stratospheric valuation, and why shareholders might be willing to forgo basic rights to get a slice of the action.
By: Aimee Donnellan, Jonathan Guilford
As once-vocal inflation hawk Kevin Warsh prepares for his first meeting as the central bank’s chair, prices are now rising at a sharp 4% rate. In this week’s Viewsroom, Breakingviews columnists debate how he can square the obvious remedy with President Trump’s rate-cut demands.
Few harness tech hype and greed like Elon Musk, a modern alloy of Wernher von Braun and PT Barnum. Despite a crazed valuation, shares in his rockets-to-chatbot firm leapt 11% on launch. That sets the stage for other debutants to put a market value on humanity’s salvation or doom.
