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Steve Gelsi

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Covers:  Wall Street, stocks, company news, finance, corporate earnings, corporate debt, IPOs, legal cannabis, mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, private credit, energy, industrial companies, venture capital.
Doesn't Cover: Health care policy, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies.
Ex-staff news reporter focused on banking and cannabis at MarketWatch.com. Former private equity writer at The Deal and Buyouts magazine.

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Steve Gelsi’s Biography

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Resourceful journalist and editor with a clear voice and deep experience in Wall Street coverage, enterprise articles and breaking news for leading publications. Specialties include banking, private markets, IPOs, corporate earnings, state-legal cannabis, profiles, feature writing and general news with analysis.

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Banks just sent this upbeat signal about the economy. Here’s why investors aren’t buying it.

Banks just sent this upbeat signal about the economy. Here’s why investors aren’t buying it.

I led an analysis of the quarterly provisions for credit losses for the largest banks. We revelated that they…

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Deal mania is back on Wall Street. Here’s what it means for JPMorgan...

Deal mania is back on Wall Street. Here’s what it means for JPMorgan...

A solid example of my financial sector coverage. This closely watched third-quarter 2025 earnings preview f…

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Circle’s $1.1 billion IPO shows Wall Street is taking stablecoins seriously

Circle’s $1.1 billion IPO shows Wall Street is taking stablecoins seriously

A top-read story of the day that connected with our audience.

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SpaceX’s $350 billion private valuation signals an IPO is off the table for now

SpaceX’s $350 billion private valuation signals an IPO is off the table for now

A look at SpaceX's and other big-dollar private company valuations and their prospects for initial public off…

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Winklevoss twins grow $3 billion richer as crypto-trading company Gemini’s stock trades higher

Winklevoss twins grow $3 billion richer as crypto-trading company Gemini’s stock trades higher

A great example of breaking news coverage and collaborating with other staffers in what became one of the mos…

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Cracker Barrel’s logo change sparks fury, online and on Wall Street

Cracker Barrel’s logo change sparks fury, online and on Wall Street

I teamed up with a colleague reporter and got a different angle on a story that was blowing up on social medi…

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How Great Hill Won an Off-Market Deal in Pet Grooming

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US chipmaker onsemi hedged through rest of year amid helium supply disruption Original

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El-Khoury also said that Chinese chip companies are “a couple of generations” behind the technology of onsemi, but he cautioned against complacency as the pace of technological advancements accelerates amid the AI boom. “As long as we are a moving target… we are ahead. That’s technology,” he said. “Get to number one and be so nervous that somebody is behind you that they will not catch you.
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Barclays CEO says he wishes the bank ‘had nothing to do’ with troubled Tricolor and MFS private-credit deals Original

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The News Barclays Group Chief Executive C.S. Venkatakrishnan said Thursday if the bank could do it all over again, it would have had “nothing to do” with soured private-credit borrowers Tricolor in the US and Market Financial Solutions in the UK. Potential losses on loans to the two companies hammer home the lesson that client selection “has always got to be the most important thing in banking,” Venkatakrishnan said at Semafor World Economy.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

First full-time news reporter job began at the Valley News of West Lebanon, N.H., after answering a classified ad.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

In journalism school we had typewriters and also some computers. The college paper used typewriters in my freshman year.

How is social media changing news?

It has transformed news into the art of finding a unique take on the news and adding value by showing why people should care.