WSJ reporter Wallerstein departs

Eric Wallerstein

Eric Wallerstein, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s finance bureau in New York, has left the paper to join Yardeni Research as chief markets strategist.

He covered bonds, currencies and global macro for the Journal. He wrote often about interest rates and their impact on broader markets, along with the banking system, government policy and derivatives trading.

Before joining the Journal, Wallerstein was an analyst on the money markets desk of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. While at the New York Fed, he covered funding markets during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and traded in the Federal Reserve’s open market operations.

Eric is a graduate of Bucknell University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.