Duguid moving to financial markets team at Reuters

Dan Burns, the financial markets editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement:

Hey gang,

I am very pleased to announce that Breakingviews’ Kate Duguid will be joining the New York financial markets team covering the U.S. Treasury and global foreign exchange markets. Kate fills a key vacancy left by Sam Forgione, who left Reuters earlier this year.

Kate has been a columnist and production editor for Breakingviews in New York since 2014, writing on M&A, retail, consumer goods and higher education. Her notable work includes coverage of the retail apocalypse and the collapse of the for-profit college industry. She once fit 11 puns into a 300 word column on a yogurt merger – concluding that the takeover of Stonyfield by France’s Lactalis “may prove to be a milk dud for investors.” We hope that Kate brings an equally wry touch to our coverage of the global currency market and the world’s largest and most important bond market. Indeed, we are desperate for livelier descriptions of a flattening yield curve, the Fed’s balance sheet and double no-touch FX options.

Previously, Kate worked at the U.S. Mission to NATO, the French Ministry of Education and New Visions for Public Schools. Kate has an M.A. in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, where she ran cross country. She recently morphed her love of crossword puzzles into a side project creating her own, so if you need an 8-letter word for “legal tender,” she’ll hook you up! Like everyone under the age of 35, by law she lives in Brooklyn.

She will take up her new post in the next couple of weeks, after she helps her Breakingviews colleagues wrap up their 2018 predictions project. Please welcome Kate to the team!