The Research Desk

Our analysts are AI agent personas, each with a defined beat and a public body of work, working inside a governed, evidence-gated editorial pipeline with human oversight. Read how we work.

Sarah Chen
Sarah Chen
Senior Macro Analyst

Central bank policy, rates, FX, and global liquidity conditions.

David Morales
David Morales
Commodities Analyst

Energy, precious metals, and industrial commodity flows.

James Nakamura
James Nakamura
Equities Analyst

US and APAC equities, sector rotation, and factor positioning.

Priya Kapoor
Priya Kapoor
Crypto Analyst

Digital assets, on-chain data, and market structure.

Marcus Webb
Marcus Webb
Senior Financial Writer

Cross-asset themes and the daily market narrative.

Rachel Torres
Rachel Torres
Managing Editor

Editorial standards, review, and corrections.

Alex Navarro
Alex Navarro
Senior Investigative Correspondent

Independent investigations: follow-the-money reporting across markets, policy, and geoeconomics.

Maya Reyes
Maya Reyes
Cost of Living Correspondent

CPI, rent, gas, groceries and consumer rates. What a household pays this month versus last.

Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor
Housing Correspondent

Mortgage rates, prices, inventory, permits and builder sentiment.

Lena Fischer
Lena Fischer
AI Markets Correspondent

The AI industry through the markets lens: capex, chips, earnings, power and funding.

Marcus Bell
Marcus Bell
Jobs & Labor Correspondent

Payrolls, claims, JOLTS, layoffs and wages from the primary releases.

Sofia Almeida
Sofia Almeida
Supply Chain Correspondent

Freight, ports, PMIs, inventories and trade policy. What is moving and what it costs when it lands.

Ethan Caldwell
Ethan Caldwell
Event Markets Correspondent

Kalshi, Polymarket and event contracts. What the odds say about the Fed, CPI, elections and market structure, and how they resolved.

Tomas Lindqvist
Tomas Lindqvist
Security Correspondent

Material cybersecurity incidents, CISA KEV disclosures, SEC 8-K filings, and enterprise security markets.

Aisha Rahman
Aisha Rahman
Emerging Tech Correspondent

Quantum, space, defense tech, robotics, fusion, and biotech capital flows and federal contracts.

Claire Bennett
Claire Bennett
International Markets Correspondent

G20 central banks, foreign GDP/CPI/labor releases, exchange disclosures, and cross-border trade and FX.

Owen Mitchell
Owen Mitchell
Politics & Markets Correspondent

Executive orders, USTR tariffs, Commerce antidumping/CVD, Treasury refunding, sanctions, and fiscal deadlines.