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James Hagerty

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Freelance writer. 40-year veteran of Wall Street Journal on 3 continents. Author of Yours Truly, a guide to writing your own story.

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James R. (Bob) Hagerty, based in Pittsburgh, is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Over the past 30 years, he has worked as a reporter, editor and bureau chief for The WSJ and the International Herald Tribune in Hong Kong, London, Brussels, Paris, Atlanta and New York. He holds a degree in economics from the University of North Dakota and is is the author of “The Fateful History of Fannie Mae” (History Press, 2012). He is the founder of a Scrabble club in Mt. Lebanon, Pa.

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Martin Leibowitz, a Math Whiz Who Transformed Bond Investing, Dies at Age 89

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As a Salomon Brothers bond researcher, he came up with formulas that still drive financial markets Martin Leibowitz, center, at Salomon Brothers. Leibowitz family When Martin Leibowitz joined the Wall Street bond-trading firm Salomon Brothers in 1969, at age 33, he knew a lot about math and very little about bonds. He asked his new colleagues to explain how they calculated a bond’s potential total return to the investor.
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Norma Yaeger, Barrier-Breaking Stockbroker, Dies at 96

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| The New York Times Verified
Norma Yaeger, Barrier-Breaking Stockbroker, Dies at 96 Over her husband’s objections, she became a Wall Street broker in the 1960s. She later started two securities firms in the overwhelmingly male financial world. Norma Yaeger in 1972.
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Norma Yaeger, Barrier-Breaking Stockbroker, Dies at 96

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Norma Yaeger, who became a rare female stockbroker in the early 1960s and went on to found two securities firms in the overwhelmingly male financial world, died June 3 in Los Angeles. She was 96. Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter, Elysa Kaswan, who said Yaeger had been under treatment for a respiratory virus. Yaeger was 32 and known as Norma Nahmias when she began her financial career in 1962 with Hornblower & Weeks, a brokerage firm in New York.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I founded my own newspaper, Worm Killers, at age five.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I'll give you a hint: I was born in 1956.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

By email.
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