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)

Warren Buffett: Even Oracles Have Their Secrets, And the SEC Lets Them

Nov 8, 2011
Warren Buffett gets a lot of attention as an investor. His folksy communication style, long, chatty investment letters, vocal disdain of Wall...

The Big Ideas: Financial Debates in Surprising Places

Nov 5, 2011
A weekly roundup - with a less-than-euphonious title - of the week's most interesting mentions of finance in surprising places....

Chase forgoes debit card fee

Oct 28, 2011
Backlash against Bank of America's $5 a month fee for debit card use prompts some rivals to drop the idea. But fees will come elsewhere.

What's Going on With MF Global?

Oct 26, 2011
When the market wants blood, it will have it. Today the object of the market's bloodlust is MF Global, the futures brokerage that has been...

Protesters urged to demand "Robin Hood" tax

Oct 20, 2011
Occupy Wall Street protesters are urged to back a 1 percent tax on financial transactions. The idea is already being considered in Europe.

Protesters spark fear among some bankers

Oct 19, 2011
Though peaceful so far, the Occupy Wall Street movement has some bankers worried about their personal safety.

Goldman Sachs in the red

Oct 18, 2011
The investment bank reported only its second quarterly loss since going public in 1999. One factor is the volatility of stock markets, which is affecting experienced traders like Goldman as well as small investors.

Big banks report earnings

Oct 17, 2011
America's biggest banks face challenges in investment and commercial banking. But the outlook for regional banks is brighter.

Rajaratnam to be sentenced in insider trading scandal

Oct 13, 2011
The sentence is expected to break records -- and to send a hard-line message to offenders about what happens when they break the law.

Bank health comes under the microscope

Oct 12, 2011
JPMorgan Chase reports earnings Thursday, offering the first look at the banking sector's health as U.S. growth slows and European debt mounts.