
Financial Times staff writer Alexandra Scaggs has left to start The Hedge, a newsletter to cover grocery bills and utilities.
She will write twice a month for the FT Alphaville.
Before the FT, she had been covering markets, primarily fixed-income investing, at Barron’s. She previously covered corporate fixed-income markets for the Alphaville blog and the FT paper.
She previously worked at Bloomberg News from February 2015 to June 2016, covering the government bond market.
Scaggs had joined Bloomberg after three years at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the stock market and investment trends. Scaggs previously worked at Institutional Investor for two years.
She is a business journalism graduate from Washington & Lee University.