Retail Markets Reporter: Decode Market Moves

Dow Jones; New York; Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

MarketWatch is seeking an ambitious Markets and Investing Reporter to help readers understand complex financial markets. You’ll cover fast-moving markets through the eyes of individual investors, break news, and develop original enterprise stories that uncover investing trends before they become obvious.

You’ll build deep sources across Wall Street, academia, government, and the investing community, translating market movements and data into clear, actionable journalism for millions of readers.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience covering financial markets, investing or business journalism.
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, investing products, market structure and macroeconomic concepts.
• Excellent news judgment and an ability to identify distinctive story angles from market movements, economic data, research and public reports.
• A proven ability to explain sophisticated financial concepts in clear, engaging language for everyday investors and readers.
• Experience developing sources across Wall Street, academia, government, financial services and the investing community.
• A habit of connecting seemingly unrelated developments into meaningful and credible stories that help our subscribers make smarter decisions.
• Excellent writing skills, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to rigorous, reader-first journalism.

Responsibilities

• You will cover breaking developments across financial markets with urgency, accuracy and context.
• Explain market moves, economic data and geopolitical developments in language accessible to a broad investing audience.
• Break news and develop enterprise stories uncovering investing trends before they become obvious.
• Become deeply embedded in the retail investing community to understand emerging trends and evolving trading behavior.
• Cultivate relationships with traders, portfolio managers, strategists, economists, academics, regulators and individual investors to generate original reporting.
• Explain how developments in market structure— from options activity and exchange rules to new trading platforms and investing products— affect individual investors.
• Track innovations in investing, including digital assets, prediction markets, brokerage platforms and new investment products, helping readers distinguish meaningful developments from hype.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom to produce impactful journalism.

Job description

MarketWatch is seeking an ambitious Markets and Investing Reporter to help readers understand complex financial markets. You’ll cover fast-moving markets through the eyes of individual investors, break news, and develop original enterprise stories that uncover investing trends before they become obvious.

You’ll build deep sources across Wall Street, academia, government, and the investing community, translating market movements and data into clear, actionable journalism for millions of readers.