Former Barron’s senior writer Racanelli hired by Fundstrat

Former Barron’s senior writer Vito Racanelli has been hired by boutique research firm Fundstrat Global Advisors as managing director, senior editor and market intelligence analyst.

Racanelli will develop a market intelligence product “Signal from Noise,” which will identify key drivers and themes impacting markets in the intermediate term.  He will also write market commentary and insights.

“Vito’s immense rolodex of corporate CEOs and clients and cumulative knowledge of markets is an extremely rare and very useful combination,” said Fundstrat head of research Thomas Lee in a statement.  “Vito’s articles at Barron’s were always widely discussed, and we expect our clients to find enormous value from his insights.”

Racanelli began his career in 1990 at the Professional Investor Report, the first real-time market news service, before moving to Milan for the Associated Press-Dow Jones as Italy bureau chief in 1994. There he directed coverage of the country’s markets and government.

He returned to the U.S. in 1997 as senior editor at Barron’s, where he wrote the “Trader,” “Streetwise” and “Up & Down Wall Street” columns. He left Barron’s in late 2018.