Bloomberg ME Shapira leaves the news organization
Arie Shapira, managing editor for global equities strategy at Bloomberg News, has left the news organization after nine years for a new opportunity. His last day was Wednesday. Shapira declined to comment. Shapira joined Bloomberg in March 2010 as an equities reporter covering energy, basic materials and industrials. He became a deputy team leader in January […]
Business Insider seeks a markets reporter in London
Business Insider is looking for a full-time reporter to join the team in London. This reporter would help to grow our Markets Insider site, a global real-time markets data destination. The ideal candidate would be a global markets junkie and killer writer who loves making each of their stories better than the last. They should […]
USA Today stocks reporter Shell takes buyout
Adam Shell, the USA Today reporter who covers Wall Street, has accepted a buyout and is leaving the paper after 19 years. “In a two-decade run as a stock market reporter, ‘the market’ has been my friend, but also an enemy,” said Shell in his farewell column this week. He added, “I started on March 20, […]
ICIS seeks a markets reporter in Houston
ICIS is looking for a market reporter to join our editorial team in Houston, mainly covering developments in the global LNG markets. You will write analytical content on a range of issues related to trends in energy markets, focusing primarily on the drivers of price movements. Relevant stories include supply and demand dynamics, regulatory or policy […]
Yahoo Finance launches eight hours of live programming on Monday
Andrew Hoffman, the senior executive producer of Yahoo Finance, previewed the website’s launch Monday of eight hours of live programming. “We’ve all been watching the markets the last few weeks, the last few months,” said Hoffman on Friday during one of Yahoo Finance’s existing shows. “And volatility is the name of the game. And it […]
Coverage: Oil prices continue to drop
Oil futures early Wednesday in New York retreated to start the new year, as concerns about global economic health continued to drive fears of flagging demand for crude. Mark DeCambre of MarketWatch.com had the news: West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery lost 52 cents, or 1.2%, to $44.89 a barrel. WTI ended Monday’s session with a loss of […]
Coverage: Stock market has huge one-day jump
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 1,000 points for the first time on Wednesday, leading a broad Wall Street rebound after a report that holiday sales were the strongest in years helped mollify concerns about the health of the economy. Lewis Krauskopf of Reuters had the story: Following Wall Street’s worst-ever Christmas Eve drop […]
Report: Only half of investors trust the financial media
Slightly more than half of all investors trust the media for information about the markets, according to a survey released Friday. That’s down from a year earlier. Fifty-five percent reported that they trust the financial media in their decision-making process about investments, according to a survey for Natixis Investment Managers. Forty-one percent said that the […]
WSJ seeks “Heard on the Street” editor
The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced and expert journalist for a franchise job: Editor of Heard on the Street. Heard, of course, is the Journal’s home for financial analysis and commentary. It is a fiefdom unto itself with a distinctive tone, style and approach. Yet it is also the analytical brain of the […]
Yahoo Finance to launch premium subscription service
Yahoo Finance’s eight-hour video programming will launch on Jan. 7, and it will also start a premium subscription service next year, according to an announcement by its parent company Verizon. The statement says: We put Yahoo Finance everywhere our consumers are with content like Women and Money and Personal Finance features and grew our off-network […]
