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Oliver Barnes
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US deals & activism correspondent @FT 📩 oliver.barnes@ft.com
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Hopes for record year in dealmaking punctured by interest rate increases
Third-quarter tally dips below $1tn • Big agreements unravel • AI rollout destabilises business models
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Talent exodus proves fatal for Weil as US law firm suffers stunning downfall
With:Kaye Wiggins
FT
Financial Times•OCT 30, 2026
Starbucks explored takeover of $41bn Chipotle chain in restaurant megadeal
FT
Financial Times•OCT 9, 2026
Hopes for record year in dealmaking punctured by interest rate increases
Third-quarter tally dips below $1tn • Big agreements unravel • AI rollout destabilises business models
With:Ivan Levingston
FT
Financial Times•OCT 5, 2026•Lead Story
Mega takeovers drive record $2.8tn in global deals despite war and volatility
With:Ivan Levingston
FT
Financial Times•JUL 2, 2026
Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky amid fast-moving US media sector
FT
Financial Times•JUN 30, 2026
NextEra and Dominion to create $420bn US power giant
Fourth-largest merger deal of all time ● Big bet on data centre energy demand
FT
Financial Times•MAY 19, 2026•Lead StoryThe paper frames the story purely as a major corporate event, emphasising the financial scale of the merger and identifying AI-driven data centre demand as the strategic catalyst. The tone is highly analytical and market-oriented.
Ebay rejects GameStop's $56bn bid as being 'neither credible nor attractive'
FT
Financial Times•MAY 13, 2026Reports on a major corporate takeover attempt with straightforward financial market analysis, quoting the target company's dismissive response.
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Paperboy tracks bylines on the front pages of major US and UK broadsheets. This page shows every front-page story attributed to Oliver Barnes in our archive, based on bylines extracted from front-page images by AI. It covers only front-page stories — not the full output of this journalist. Data begins April 2026.