MarketWatch.com hires Maidan as tech and investing reporter

MarketWatch.com executive editor Nathan Vardi sent out the following on Tuesday:

All,

I am thrilled to announce that Laila Maidan is joining MarketWatch as a Tech and Investing Reporter. Laila is an excellent journalist who comes to us from Business Insider, where she wrote market-moving stories on stocks, bonds, derivatives, currencies and crypto. In her coverage, Laila has interviewed prominent investors like Ray Dalio and Mark Spitznagel, identified which financial ratios are the best predictors of stock-market returns, and written thoughtfully about investing in the AI boom.

At MarketWatch, Laila will make sense of the rapid developments in the technology market by offering actionable investment recommendations. She will provide our readers with a deep understanding of financial concepts and valuation metrics related to technology stocks and make complicated topics easy to understand.

When Laila isn’t taking online courses or reading books about quantum physics, you might find her doing mixed martial arts, including Tae Kwon Do and Muay Thai. MarketWatch is lucky she gave up on her childhood dream of being a helicopter pilot to pursue journalism instead.

Laila will join our growing technology team in New York and report to Emily Bary. We are currently also seeking a reporter to cover Nvidia and the world of AI chips, and another reporter to cover big technology companies. Please welcome Laila when she joins on March 31.

Nathan