Breakingviews launched in 2000. Since then our distinctive brand of views-based journalism has seen us grow into a leader in online financial opinion, now available in dedicated US and European editions. Breakingviews so far...

2009

• In December, Thomson Reuters, the world's leading financial and business information company, acquires Breakingviews to position itself as the global leader in financial commentary.

2008

• The Telegraph, The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune are to begin publishing breakingviews.com columns.
• Other new partners include La Stampa, The National, El País and Cinqo Días.

2007

• Breakingviews launches new daily columns in Handelsblatt and Le Monde. Claudio Costamagna and Mervyn Davies join the BV board. A new column appears in the Indian financial paper, Mint.

2006

• A daily column launches in the Wall Street Journal

2005

• Breakingviews US goes live and launches a column in the Wall Street Journal's weekend edition.

2004

• The US bureau opens in New York, led by Rob Cox.

2003

• A new daily column in Tijd Belgium’s leading financial newspaper.

2002

• Breakingviews introduces interactive online calculators.
• A column begins in Spain’s Gaceta de los Negocios.

2001

• Daily columns in Dutch daily L’Agefi.
• Breakingviews is the first online business journal to win a Harold Wincott award.
• Breakingviews awarded a European Online Journalism award for its coverage of conflicts in investment banking and securities research.

2000

• Breakingviews goes live online
• Daily columns launched in the Wall Street Journal and Europe and Italy’s La Repubblica
• Hugo Dixon is Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

1999

• Hugo Dixon, former editor of the Financial Times’ Lex column, sets up Europe’s first online commentary service with FT colleague Jonathan Ford.