Business & Finance Writing

Ellie Ismailidou has spent over a decade covering the intersection of money, financial markets, and everyday life. Currently, Ellie 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. The Explainomics franchise also includes a video series, hosted by Ellie, with distribution across the Wall Street Journal Digital Network and in 19 local broadcast markets. Explainomics was also translated into Spanish.

Previously, Ellie penned a column on stocks and bonds at MarketWatch, wrote about public finance at the Financial Times Group, and covered the Greek crisis on the ground in Athens, as a writer for To Vima, the oldest national Greek newspaper. She also served as a TV correspondent for Intereconomía, a Spanish business-news network.

Ellie’s work has been honored with Columbia Journalism School's Philip Greer Memorial Award for outstanding financial writing and with a nomination for a Fulbright Scholar Grant.

Markets & Investing

Ellie's articles have helped thousands of [ep[;e make sense of the stock market's daily ups and downs to decipher trends and themes determining the future of their investments.

Reporting on the Greek Crisis on the ground

Ellie covered the economic crisis in Greece, merging her on-the-ground reporting skills with her expertise in economics. A debt crisis can be fascinating but also devastating. Her stories have helped investors understand how and why cities, states and countries continue to fall into the same trap. 

Public finance and local economy

Ellie has written extensively on public finance and the economics of troubled cities and states. She covered the public debt crisis in Puerto Rico, the notorious city bankruptcies of Stockton and San Bernardino in California, Michigan’s troubled school districts’ financial problems and the public pension crisis across the U.S.