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)

Welcome to Marketplace on Wall Street

Apr 5, 2011
Anyone who listens to Marketplace knows that the world of business is woven into - and in some cases, ensnared within - all of our lives. Credit...

Business looks past federal budget impasse

Mar 31, 2011
U.S. businesses are shrugging off a possible federal government shutdown, but are concerned about whether the debt ceiling will be raised.

Banks cry poor; their profits beg to differ

Mar 30, 2011
JPMorgan Chase's CEO warns that financial regulation makes U.S. banks uncompetitive. Yet their profits have returned to pre-crisis levels.

Facebook preps for IPO

Mar 28, 2011
Facebook is trying to hire Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary, according to a report in The New York Times. Gibbs would manage the social network's communications ahead of an IPO next year.

Once-troubled lender CIT returns to the market

Mar 25, 2011
CIT, which finances small- and medium-sized companies, found healthy investor appetite for $2 billion worth of junk bonds.

GE scores big profits, but a small U.S. tax bill

Mar 25, 2011
From light bulbs to jet engines, General Electric is a symbol of a profitable American business. Why then doesn't it pay corporate tax?

Stockbroker Schwab moves into options

Mar 21, 2011
Charles Schwab made stock-buying cheap and easy for small investors. Now Schwab is betting $1 billion on the growing demand for options trading.

Japan crisis chills U.S. corporate funding

Mar 17, 2011
The Japanese earthquake has rattled markets and companies hoping to raise capital. But many experts call it a pause, not the end of the rally.

New move to woo private capital for public works

Mar 14, 2011
As highways age, the U.S. looks to renew efforts to create an infrastructure bank to lure private investors into public construction projects.

Big investor dumps its U.S. Treasury bonds

Mar 10, 2011
PIMCO, which runs the biggest bond fund, has sold most of its Treasury holdings, underscoring the growing belief that interest rates will soon rise.