Joe Rennison

I am a reporter covering financial markets for The New York Times, based in New York.

What I Cover

I write about different financial markets, from U.S. government bonds to global stocks, currencies and debt. I am interested in conveying what financial markets can tell us about the world, breaking through the jargon and making them more intelligible to our readers.

My Background

I have been a financial journalist for more than a decade. I began my career at a magazine called Risk, digging into the details of legislation introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, from rules around how much capital banks should hold to changes in the market for derivatives that had helped inflate the credit bubble that led to the Great Recession. I moved to The Financial Times in 2015 to cover the more complex corners of markets, such as sliced and diced structured bonds, before branching out to write about interest rates, debt and the stock market. I left the FT as the paper’s deputy U.S. markets editor and joined The Times in 2022.

I graduated in 2010 with a degree in philosophy, logic and scientific method from the London School of Economics and Political Science. A native Brit, I moved to the U.S. at the end of 2012 and now live in Brooklyn with my wife and our two cats.

Journalistic Ethics

The Times instills very high ethical standards that I adhere to with an abundance of caution. I do not actively trade any securities. My retirement account and personal savings are in broad-based indexes that are unlikely to be swayed by my reporting. I don’t directly own individual stocks or even narrow-sector indexes. I do not accept gifts from sources (I even choose to pay for my own coffee at meetings). I do not publicly engage with political discourse and refrain from political donations (including charitable donations that may be perceived as political), as per The Times’s guidelines.

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