Wall Street Correspondent, The Economist
ALICE
FULWOOD
Currently
Alice Fulwood is The Economist's Wall Street correspondent, covering a range of topics about banking and the financial system in the US. She is based in New York.
Before that Alice was a business correspondent, based in London, covering the pharmaceutical industry. She first joined the paper on an internship sponsored by the Marjorie Deane Foundation, where she wrote about finance, banking and economics.
Alice started writing for The Economist in 2018. Prior to joining The Economist Alice worked for a large European investment bank. During her tenure Alice was based in Singapore as an Economist covering Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. She also worked as a foreign exchange spot and derivatives sales trader in London. Alice graduated from the University of Cambridge, where she studied Economics.
Published work
Christmas repeat
December 2019
Despite the Fed’s efforts, the repo market risks more turbulence
Pick your poison
July 2019
Conversations with bankers about the Democratic primaries invariably turn to Elizabeth Warren
Think blind dates couldn’t get any worse? Try this
July 2019
I am trying to decide if the two strangers I am watching on a blind date are into each other
The hottest seat in banking
June 2019
It is with relief—oops, I mean “regret”—that I must turn down your offer of the role of chief executive at Wells Fargo
Flight to safety
May 2019
Grimstad, norway, is an unlikely setting for financial-market shenanigans
Buffetology
February 2019
When future generations want to study today’s capitalists, a good place to start would be Warren Buffett’s annual letters to the shareholders
Sales from the crypt
May 2018
In a recent video Jeremy Sciarappa, a YouTuber, flips the lid off a red box in his living room to reveal a silver machine the size of a shoebox, whining noisily.
Where it's due
May 2018
In 2013 Codere, a Spanish gaming firm, owed money it could not repay. Its bonds were trading at just over half face value.
A sunny place for a shady currency
March 2018
It “will be an instrument for Venezuela’s economic stability and financial independence”, promises a white paper published by the country’s government last month.
The country home of capital
January 2020
Why so many of America’s financial elite have left Greenwich
A life's rich tapestry
November 2019
How Jim Simons became the most successful investor of all time
Home truths
September 2019
Steven Mnuchin begins reforming America’s giant mortgage-guarantee firms
Chubby cats
May 2019
If the best way to get rich is by managing other people’s money, it helps if your clients control a lot of it
Under the hood
February 2019
"Go straight to the source" is a useful rule for anyone seeking accurate information
Hybrid heaven
January 2019
The mellow thrum of the Toyota Prius is to the streets of Ulaanbaatar what the screech of brakes and honk of horns is to New York: omnipresent.
Blood money
May 2018
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first successful human-to-human blood transfusion, conducted by James Blundell, an English obstetrician working just across the Thames from The Economist’s offices.
Should Wall Street's most celebrated boss call it a day?
March 2020
Succession at JPMorgan Chase
How the mighty have fallen
January 2020
The bank’s search for a new identity captures the changes in global banking
Christmas bonus
January 2020
The causes of a booming stockmarket are unlikely to last through 2020
Territorial claims
October 2019
Is the board overseeing Puerto Rico's bankruptcy unconstitutional?
The new masters of the universe
October 2019
Forget Gordon Gekko, computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets
Generous to a fault
August 2019
Why America’s biggest charities are owned by pharmaceutical companies
Alternative reality
June 2019
When buy-out firms first came to prominence in the 1980s, they were seen as wolves in fine Italian wool
Flipping property
May 2019
A well-functioning market is one that enables buyers and sellers to execute transactions quickly, easily and cheaply
In the pillory
March 2019
You have not been able to keep Wells Fargo out of trouble,” Maxine Waters told Tim Sloan, the chief executive of America’s fourth-biggest bank
Shooting the messenger
February 2019
Those who profit from the misery of others are not often popular
Kill or cure?
December 2018
As befits a deal in the medical industry, this one has been rather hard to swallow.
Vein attempts
May 2018
A willing buyer in a market with plenty of willing sellers, Barzin Bahardoust is finding life surprisingly hard.
Collateral damage
March 2018
China is the stated adversary in Donald Trump’s incipient trade war.