Hugo Dixon
Hugo Dixon is the founder and editor of Reuters Breakingviews. Before founding Breakingviews in 1999, Hugo spent 13 years at the Financial Times, the last five as Head of Lex. He began his journalistic career at the Economist. Hugo was a Brackenbury Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Before that, he was a King’s Scholar at Eton College. He is the author of the Penguin Guide to Finance and Finance Just in Time. He was named Business Journalist of the Year 2000 in the British Press Awards. In 2008, he won the Decade of Excellence Award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards.
Contact Info
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7542 0477
- E-mail: hugo.dixon@thomsonreuters.com
Recent stories
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Hugo Dixon: How to protect euro from Greek exit
The rest of the euro zone doesn’t seem prepared for Athens quitting the single currency, even though the chances have shot up. Here’s a four point contingency plan to prevent the euro unravelling. The tough part will be to get Germany on board.
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Madrid hopes it's fifth time lucky
Spain is going back to the drawing board again to clean up its banking system. Since cash is short, it will be tempted to use financial engineering. But if it’s too clever, investors won’t be impressed.
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Greece down but not yet out of euro
The voters don’t want austerity-cum-reform. But they don’t want euro exit either. Out of the electoral mess, the best hope is that new compromises can be forged. Otherwise, Greece is heading for chaos and the rest of the zone for renewed crisis.
- Hugo Dixon: What a euro growth pact should contain
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- Hugo Dixon: IMF-euro conditions not what they seem
- Hugo Dixon: Can the euro omelette be unscrambled?
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Who will fill Ian Hannam's shoes?
- BSkyB better off without Murdoch in chair
- Hugo Dixon: Euro zone should beware the "F" word
