John Prestbo is Markets Editor for The Wall
Street Journal and Editor of Dow Jones indexes. Mr. Prestbo has been with the Journal for more
than 30 years, starting in 1964 as a commodities reporter in the
Chicago bureau. In 1983 he was named Markets Editor of the Journal.
Most recently he has participated in the development and expansion
of the Dow Jones Indexes, now encompassing countries, regions, sectors
and industry groups, as well as the world index. He has co-authored several books, including News
and the Market (1974), Barron’s Guide to Making Investment
Decisions (1993) and The Wall Street Journal Book of International
Investing (1997). Doug Sease is deputy editor of The Wall Street
Journal’s Money and Investing section, and is responsible for
The Journal’s coverage of financial markets as well as banks,
insurance and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Sease has been writing about markets and investing
since 1987 and is the co-author of Barron’s Guide to Making
Investment Decisions, The Wall Street Journal Book of International
Investing and The Flat Tax Primer, and is the editor
of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Who’s Who and What’s
What on Wall Street. He currently is at work on another book, The
Wall Street Journal’s Investor Toolkit, due for publication
in 1999. Mr. Sease has also provided economic and market commentary
for NBC’s News at Sunrise and for CNBC. When he isn’t
tracking markets or working on books, Mr. Sease and his wife Jane
sail their boat GALAXIE up and down the East Coast. John Murphy was the technical analyst for CNBC-TV
for seven years. He has been a professional analyst for over 25
years and is author of three books. His first book, Technical
Analysis of the Futures Markets (New York Institute of Finance/Prentice
Hall, 1986) is widely regarded as the standard reference on technical
analysis and has been translated into six languages. Intermarket
Technical Analysis (John Wiley & Sons, 1991) is credited
with creating a new branch of market analysis emphasizing market
linkages. His latest book, The Visual Investor (John Wiley
& Sons, 1996) was written for the individual investor and emphasizes
sector analysis and mutual fund investing. John has his own consulting firm, JJM Technical
Advisors, based in Oradell, New Jersey. He is also president of
MURPHYMORRIS, Inc., which was created to produce educational software
products and online services for investors. John is a frequent speaker
at financial conferences around the world, and was given the first
award for contribution to global technical analysis at the Fifth
World Congress of the International Federation of Technical Analysts
in 1992. Harry Seneker is an established financial journalist
who started his career as a securities analyst at The Value Line
Investment Survey. He worked at Forbes magazine for many
years, rising to senior editor and developing and managing the Forbes
400 and the magazine’s international billionaires project.
After working as a consultant for publications ranging from Money
to Working Woman, he has joined Dow Jones as Publications
Editor for Dow Jones Indexes. Gregory Zuckerman Greg Zuckerman has covered the bond market for
The Wall Street Journal for the past two years. He also writes
articles about mutual funds and an occasional Heard on the Street
column. Previously, Mr. Zuckerman covered the media industry and
mergers and acquisitions at the New York Post. He also served as
the managing editor of Mergers and Acquisitions Report, an Investment
Dealers’ Digest newsletter, for three years. He lives on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife Michelle. David Wessel is chief economics correspondent
for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, D.C., where he
has been covering economic policy and the American standard of living
since 1987. He previously worked in The Journal's Boston
bureau and for The Boston Globe, The Hartford Courant
and the Middletown (Ct.) Press. A graduate of Haverford College,
Mr. Wessel was a Knight Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics
Journalism at Columbia University in 1980-81. He shared a Pulitzer
Prize in 1984 for a Boston Globe series on the persistence of racial
discrimination in employment in Boston, and has shared several awards
for Journal reports on economic crises in Mexico and Asia. With
Bob Davis, Mr. Wessel is the co-author of Prosperity: The Coming
20-Year Boom and What It Means to You (Times Books, 1998), which
argues that the American middle class will fare better over the
next 20 years than it has over the past 20 disappointing years.
Mr. Wessel lives in Washington with his wife and two children. Beth McGoldrick is an editorial consultant based
in the Boston area. She has written widely on business and financial
topics for publications including Business Week, Working Woman,
Global Finance, and the Harvard Business School Bulletin.
As a writer for Institutional Investor, Ms. McGoldrick covered Wall
Street for several years—concentrating on corporate finance,
investment banking, and mergers and acquisitions—and received
an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of financial deregulation
in the UK. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College, and holds an
MS in Journalism and an MBA from Columbia University.
John Prestbo
Douglas
Sease
John Murphy
Harold
Seneker
David
Wessel
Beth McGoldrick