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 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.
Videos
Podcasts
October 2019
I talk about the challenges facing Wells Fargo's new boss with Patrick Lane
Money talks
October 2019
The stock market is now run by machines. I speak with Jason Palmer about what this means
The intelligence
July 2019
I discuss how Wall Street's elite do not hate Elizabeth Warren as much as you might think
Money talks
April 2019
Goldman is reinventing itself. I discuss the banks prospects with Simon Long
Money talks
September 2019
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are moving house. Simon Long and I discuss
Money talks
July 2019
Getting a ticket to Wimbledon is tough. Rachana Shanbhogue and I discuss some tips
Money talks
January 2019
I discuss the trade in blood products with Chad Bown and Soumaya Keynes
Trade talks
Contact me
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Published work
Home truths
Steven Mnuchin begins reforming America’s giant mortgage-guarantee firms
September 2019
Chubby cats
If the best way to get rich is by managing other people’s money, it helps if your clients control a lot of it
May 2019
Under the hood
"Go straight to the source" is a useful rule for anyone seeking accurate information
February 2019
Hybrid heaven
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.
January 2019
Blood money
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.
May 2018
Territorial claims
Is the board overseeing Puerto Rico's bankruptcy unconstitutional?
October 2019
The new masters of the universe
Forget Gordon Gekko, computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets
October 2019
Generous to a fault
Why America’s biggest charities are owned by pharmaceutical companies
August 2019
Alternative reality
When buy-out firms first came to prominence in the 1980s, they were seen as wolves in fine Italian wool
June 2019
Flipping property
A well-functioning market is one that enables buyers and sellers to execute transactions quickly, easily and cheaply
May 2019
In the pillory
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
March 2019
Shooting the messenger
Those who profit from the misery of others are not often popular
February 2019
Kill or cure?
As befits a deal in the medical industry, this one has been rather hard to swallow.
December 2018
Vein attempts
A willing buyer in a market with plenty of willing sellers, Barzin Bahardoust is finding life surprisingly hard.
May 2018
Collateral damage
China is the stated adversary in Donald Trump’s incipient trade war.
March 2018
Pick your poison
Conversations with bankers about the Democratic primaries invariably turn to Elizabeth Warren
July 2019
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
July 2019
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
June 2019
Flight to safety
Grimstad, norway, is an unlikely setting for financial-market shenanigans
May 2019
Buffetology
When future generations want to study today’s capitalists, a good place to start would be Warren Buffett’s annual letters to the shareholders
February 2019
Sales from the crypt
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.
May 2018
Where it's due
In 2013 Codere, a Spanish gaming firm, owed money it could not repay. Its bonds were trading at just over half face value.
May 2018
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.
March 2018