Financial writing

Ellie Ismailidou is a prolific writer on financial markets and investing. Currently, she is the author of Explainomics, a financial education column that runs on MarketWatch and seeks to break down complex financial topics in an accessible manner.

Previously, Ellie was a columnist for MarketWatch's popular Market Snapshot and Bond Report columns - together read by nearly 100,000 people every day. Ellie's articles helped thousands of people make sense of the stock market's daily ups and downs to decipher trends and themes determining the future of their investments.

Financial education

Making sense of the market

Brexit: Here’s why investors bought S&P 500 bonds — not stocks — after Brexit

Oil crisis: Buy these stocks if you are bearish on oil, Goldman Sachs says

Investing: Why only the safest and riskiest assets are winning in this market

Inflation: Here’s why inflation might be this market’s bogeyman

Bonds & fixed income

Treasury market: Could this post-Fed bond selloff be a repeat of ‘taper tantrum’?

Junk bonds: These companies are most vulnerable to junk-bond meltdown

Corporate bonds: Did the Volcker rule really harm the bond market?

Stock market

Market crashes: Dow closes at 2-year low, dogged by global market turmoil

Stock investing: These 3 charts show the beginning of the end for Wall Street’s big winners

Correlations: Here’s why investors should ‘mind the gap’ between bonds and stocks

Sector investing: Wall Street’s safest bets are now in bubble territory