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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 UBS, a Swiss 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.
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The causes of a booming stockmarket are unlikely to last through 2020
Why the repo market went awry...
Is the board overseeing Puerto Rico's bankruptcy unconstitutional?
The new masters of the universe
Forget Gordon Gekko, computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets
Why America’s real-estate brokers are such a rip-off
Why America’s biggest charities are owned by pharmaceutical companies
Economics is all about allocating scarce resources
When buy-out firms first came to prominence in the 1980s, they were seen as wolves in fine Italian wool
By almost any measure, America’s biggest banks are behemoths
A well-functioning market is one that enables buyers and sellers to execute transactions quickly, easily and cheaply
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
Those who profit from the misery of others are not often popular
As dull as “watching paint dry”.
As befits a deal in the medical industry, this one has been rather hard to swallow.
A willing buyer in a market with plenty of willing sellers, Barzin Bahardoust is finding life surprisingly hard.
Watching financial markets can be like watching a horror film.
China is the stated adversary in Donald Trump’s incipient trade war.
Despite the Fed’s efforts, the repo market risks more turbulence
How to fix the repo market
How to ensure financial firms have enough cash
The Fed has lightened the load on America's banks
Fifty years ago investing was a distinctly human affair
Apple and Goldman Sachs launch their credit card
Conversations with bankers about the Democratic primaries invariably turn to Elizabeth Warren
Think blind dates couldn’t get any worse? Try this
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
It is with relief—oops, I mean “regret”—that I must turn down your offer of the role of chief executive at Wells Fargo
Grimstad, norway, is an unlikely setting for financial-market shenanigans
Economists have long argued about the efficiency of markets
When future generations want to study today’s capitalists, a good place to start would be Warren Buffett’s annual letters to the shareholders
Giant banks are made, not born
Teesside was the future, once.
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.
In 2013 Codere, a Spanish gaming firm, owed money it could not repay. Its bonds were trading at just over half face value.
Morris Chang is preparing for retirement.
A sunny place for a shady currency
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.
How Jim Simons became the most successful investor of all time
What kind of bank will Wells Fargo be?
A group of fintech firms are changing the way consumers borrow
Steven Mnuchin begins reforming America’s giant mortgage-guarantee firms
Argentina faces the prospect of another default
Looking after the pennies
Those saving for retirement face plenty of quandaries
Summer brings examinations, both for students and for America’s banks
The federal reserve is changing direction
If the best way to get rich is by managing other people’s money, it helps if your clients control a lot of it
No one is more aware of the value of a brand than Goldman Sachs
"Go straight to the source" is a useful rule for anyone seeking accurate information
Shakespeare was a fan of the quibble.
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.
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.
Boston parents were fed up.
Morris Chang is preparing for retirement.
