Heidi N. Moore is the New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent for Marketplace, where she reports and writes about the culture of banks, companies, financing and markets.

Moore started at Marketplace in January 2011. She enjoys Marketplace's smart, snappy approach and is keenly focused on interpreting and explaining Wall Street so that it's accessible to everyone.

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.

Features By Heidi N. Moore

Pages

0

What Can We Learn from 147 Bank Crises?

International Monetary Fund researchers explained some interesting patterns and lessons of financial disaster, after studying 147 bank crises, 218 currency crises and 66 country crises in the financial health of companies. Easy Street brings you their findings in plain English.
0

After Moody's downgrade, will banks need bailouts?

After U.S. markets closed yesterday, the rating agency Moody's delivered more bad news -- this time to 15 of the world's largest banks, including the biggest American banks. The fine print of the downgrade hints at more bank bailouts down the road.
Posted In: Moody's, banking, bailout
0

Moody's downgrade 'for the banks' own good'

The credit rating agency Moody's slashed the ratings of 15 of the world's biggest banks, including most of the big guys here in the U.S.
Posted In: markets, banking, downgrades
0

Moody's: Government Would Bail Out Banks. Except JP Morgan.

Moody's ratings downgrade of major banks today included some backhanded compliments.
0

Moody's cuts ratings of major international banks

Moody's has downgraded the credit ratings of 15 banks in Europe and North America -- that continues to rattle markets in Asia and Europe today so far.
Posted In: Moody's, downgrade, banking
0

Is the Federal Reserve running out of ammo?

Global markets, and many economists, seem unimpressed this morning with the news yesterday from the Federal Reserve that it will expand the Operation Twist monetary stimulus program.
Posted In: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke
0

Falling gas prices can serve as stimulus

Yesterday, the Federal reserve refused to commit to any extreme stimulus measures for the economy-- at least just yet. That has a ripple effect on commodities like oil.
Posted In: gas, Oil, stimulus
1

Did Facebook's IPO Reveal a Rigged Market?

Even a full month after Facebook's disastrous IPO, it's clear the deal had far-reaching implications on faith in the markets, for both professional and regular investors.
0

Awaiting the Federal Reserve's next move

The Fed will wrap up a meeting today in Washington, and the expectation is that policymakers will launch more monetary stimulus to boost the economy.
Posted In: Federal Reserve, stimulus, quantitative easing
0

Federal Reserve to announce possible monetary policy changes

The U.S. Federal Reserve Open Market Committee finishes two days of meetings today. And we'll have an announcement shortly on what -- if any -- change in monetary policy they might have decided on.
Posted In: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke

Pages