Bloomberg’s Goodman is retiring after 27 years

Wes Goodman, a journalist at Bloomberg News, is retiring after 27 years. He is currently an editor in the live blogs team.

Here is the message that went out:

After 27 years of sterling commitment to Bloomberg News, Wes Goodman is retiring this week. His last day in the office will be Thursday, October 3rd.

At its core, Bloomberg is a fund built on bonds, the asset class Wes covered for his whole career here. In fact, Wes Goodman was THE Treasuries news from Asia for most of the 2000s. For those of us arriving in Europe, if it wasn’t reported by Wes Goodman, then it just didn’t happen. His stories were top of TOP and top of the website all the time.

He has done it all: been a reporter, an editor, a TL; he’s appeared regularly on TV, radio and podcasts (including a collab with his daughter!). A founding member of MLIV, he showed his ongoing willingness and ability to adapt by then becoming a stalwart of the global Squawk team.

What’s quite exciting about this announcement is that if you mention the name of Wes Goodman to almost anyone who worked in the Singapore bureau during the past 25 years (until a few years ago), one of the first stories they will tell you will be how they remember Wes showing them the retirement-planning function on the terminal (that’s since been killed). He’s been quite focused on this moment, to say the least (the podcast link above gives you some idea!).

The second tidbit they might mention is his love/defence of Mariah Carey although he protests he moved on from that to some extent in recent years.

He is off today, preparing for his momentous last few days with us — please take a moment before Thursday to drop him a line or say goodbye.

Wes — on behalf of everyone in markets and MLIV, thank you so much or all your hard work and dedication over the years.