Earlier career for Reuters in Europe 1980 - 1997

Chief Correspondent Foreign Exchange
1992-1997 - London ITN building, Gray's Inn Road

  • Headed the Foreign Exchange Reporting team.

  • Covered all aspects of foreign exchange including the ERM crises of sterling, French franc and the second tier currencies.

  • UK parliamentary coverage including, just before I left for Asia, the Tony Blair election victory.

  • UK Treasury and economic data releases.

  • Traveled extensively in Europe covering the various ERM crises and the run up to EMU.

  • Technical Analysis of financial Markets.

  • Responsible for coverage of the Bank of England.

Economics/Lobby Correspondent
1989-1992 - London, Fleet Street

  • Senior writer for UK Economics.

  • Front man for all the UK economic data releases from the UK Treasury.

  • Responsible for follow-up stories on all the UK data releases.

  • Covered the UK angles of, then, G7 meetings plus IMF, Basle etc.

  • Technical Analysis of financial markets.

  • Responsible for coverage of the Bank of England.

Forex and Economics Correspondent
1987-1989 - London, Fleet Street

  • Co-Lead writer on all aspects of European Forex.

  • Covered all aspects of UK and European Economics.

  • Secondary writer on UK Economics.

  • Daily Forex market reports.

  • Technical analysis.

  • Responsible for coverage of the Bank of England.

Equities Correspondent
1985-1987 - London, Fleet Street

  • Worked as part of a small equities reporting team.

  • Biggest story was, of course, the global stock market crash of '87.

  • Co-lead markets writer for the crash.

  • Covered all aspects of UK equities.

  • Daily UK market reports.

Correspondent Financial Reporting Unit
1984-1985 - London, Fleet Street

  • Trainee journalist covering all aspects of UK financial markets.

  • Covered Stock, Bond, Foreign Exchange, Eurobond, Derivative and Money markets.

  • Responsible for Bank of England daily market operations.

Prices Clerk
1982-1984 - London, Fleet Street

  • Coverage of Commodity, Stock, Foreign Exchange and Money Market prices.

Editorial Assistant London
1981-1982 - London, Fleet Street

  • Responsible for collating service message exchanges between bureau.

  • General Newsroom duties.

  • Price gathering.

Contract Editorial Assistant
1980-1981 - London, Fleet Street

  • General Newsroom duties.