Heidi Moore

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Heidi N. Moore is The Guardian's U.S. finance and economics editor. She was formerly the New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent for Marketplace.

Prior to joining Marketplace, Moore was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where she was the lead writer for the paper’s award-winning Deal Journal online and daily newspaper column during the height (and depths) of the world financial crisis. In addition, she wrote an analysis of banks and mergers and broke news of SEC investigations, big acquisitions, and Barclays Capital buying most of Lehman Brothers out of bankruptcy.  Before that, she was U.S. Bureau Chief for London-based, Dow Jones-owned weekly newspaper and daily website, Financial News. For six years, she was a senior writer covering Wall Street banks and power brokers for The Deal magazine.

Moore’s articles on Wall Street banks and finance have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Financial Times and Slate.

Moore is a graduate of Columbia University and a native New Yorker. In her free time, Moore enjoys running and traveling.

Latest Stories (229)

Credit Suisse makes life a little harder for aspiring rogue traders

Dec 15, 2011
Take an extra week off and disconnect from your computers and BlackBerry, the bank tells employees as it steps up efforts to thwart nefarious trading within its ranks

Time's Person of the Year: Emphatically Not Wall Street

Dec 14, 2011
A vote for someone, as we know, is also a vote against someone else. So reading between the lines of Time‘s widely noticed Person of the Year package, we can say for sure that one industry was openly snubbed: Wall Street. Yes, every person or entity that Time wrote approvingly of this year was working […]

Wall Street braces for smaller bonuses

Dec 13, 2011
Bankers and traders could receive as much as 30 percent less in year-end bonuses. Some just hope they keep their jobs amid mounting layoffs

Was Jon Corzine Right About European Bonds?

Dec 13, 2011
During his third grilling in the Senate today, The former CEO of MF Global continues to defend the firm's investments in the European bond market

Carole Geithner Publishes First

Dec 13, 2011
Carole Geithner, wife of Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner, adds "author" to her resume with her new book, "If Only."

A brief, ignoble history of the BlackBerry on Wall Street

Dec 13, 2011
The addictive little device has connected the financial industry, but also plagued it with high costs and compulsive behavior.

Former MF Global CEO testifies before Congress

Dec 8, 2011
Jon Corzine will have to explain how the bank lost $1 billion of customer money.

Rating agency again steps into political fray

Dec 6, 2011
First, the U.S. debt ceiling debate; now Europe. Standard & Poor’s threat to cut countries’ credit ratings appears meant to prod political action.

Germany, France moot tougher EU budget rules

Dec 5, 2011
Merkel and Sarkozy propose amending the European Union treaty to impose budget discipline on spendthrift countries. Will markets be satisfied?

Do payroll tax cuts help the economy?

Dec 2, 2011
The Senate yesterday failed to agree on a deal that would extend payroll tax cuts, a key part of President Obama's stimulus