Steve Beckner, a Senior Correspondent for MNI, is a graduate of Duke University with 35 years of journalism experience. He has worked for three daily newspapers, most recently The Washington Times, and written for many other newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, USA Today, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun and Barron's. For 19 years he has been regularly heard on National Public Radio, reporting and commenting on economic and financial developments. He is also a regular columnist for Futures Magazine.

For the past 22 years he has been senior correspondent for MNI, specializing in coverage of domestic and international monetary policy. After many years of covering the Federal Reserve, he wrote a book about the Fed titled "Back from the Brink: The Greenspan Years," published in 1997 by John Wiley & Sons. New York Times Magazine profiled Steve in a 1995 article titled "The Beckner Effect," referring to the impact his articles about Fed policy have on the financial markets.

Phillip Day is Asia News Editor and oversees editorial operations in Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing for MNI. Mr. Day has more than 23 years of experience in the news business, with about half of that spent in Asia. He has worked for Knight-Ridder Financial (which later became Bridge News) in Tokyo, for Bloomberg in Hong Kong and, for about four years prior to joining MNI in 2004, for the Wall Street Journal in Singapore. He also spent two years in London in an earlier incarnation with MNI. At the WSJ, Mr. Day was deputy bureau chief for finance and markets in Asia and his stories appeared in the U.S., European and Asian editions of the paper. He was also one of the writers of the Asian version of the Heard on the Street column. Mr. Day spent seven years covering politics in Ottawa, most of those with The Canadian Press, before heading out to Asia. As well as his duties at MNI, Mr. Day makes frequent television appearances on BBC World to discuss Asian finance and economics.

Denny Gulino, MNI's Washington Bureau Chief, returned to MNI in '93 from the National Association of Manufacturers, where he was VP of Communications for four years. Prior, he was MNI NY bureau chief and first sales manager, preceded by a stint at The Bond Buyer's Washington bureau/Munifacts wire service. Before that, Mr. Gulino served a dozen years with UPI, as Washington Bureau Chief of UPI Radio, as Reporter/Editor in Chicago and New York, as UPI Regional Executive in Pittsburgh and as UPI's National Economics Reporter -- through longevity, becoming dean of the Treasury press room. While in NY for UPI he published the Fort Greene newspaper in Brooklyn. Mr. Gulino's hometown is Cincinnati, where he was assignment editor/reporter/producer for WCPO-TV for eight years.

Claudia Hirsch, MNI's Senior Correspondent in New York, has been with the company since 1996. Her column, Reality Check, anticipates major US economic data by surveying the businesses and tradespeople on the ground that create the economy. Previously, she covered the legislative and regulatory landscape of the government-sponsored housing enterprises, including mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from 2002 to 2005, splitting her time between New York and Washington. She was posted in the US Congress press galleries from 1999-2002, covering tax, trade, banking and budget issues. She started her tenure at MNI covering the foreign exchange market from New York, 1996-1999. Ms. Hirsch also lectured in the Journalism programs of the State University of New York College at Purchase and New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, 2004-2006. Follow Claudia on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MNIRealityCheck

Yali N'Diaye has been interviewing managers of portfolios around the world, focusing on how some of the brightest minds in finance adjust to ever-changing economic circumstances, since joining MNI's Paris bureau in 1998. European finance ministers were also frequently the subjects of her interviews when she was based in Paris. In Washington since 2001, Yali also covers every sort of financial news event, tracks rating agencies issues and their many spinoffs and is a familiar sight in the government's many economic data "lockups" here the latest numbers are prepared to move markets when they become public. And she manages MNI's continuing stream of "Portfolios" features.

Yali worked as a bond market economist for a French broker and a marketing specialist for a French money fund. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a masters degree in international banking and finance.

Mark Pender is creator and producer of MNI's U.S. Capital Goods Report and U.S. Retail Trade Report. He joined MNI in the early 90s after five years with the German Economic News. He later spent two years as New York bureau chief for AFX News then came back to MNI before turning freelance in 2000. Besides his current work for MNI he is Senior Writer for Econoday. He has degrees in the arts and literature from U.C. Berkeley, Claremont Graduate School, and the University of Southern California.

Vicki Schmelzer is a senior FX reporter at Market News International. She created TheFXSpot, a daily currency feature for MNI's mainwire, and writes other analysis pieces each week that deal with currency trends globally.

Ms. Schmelzer traded spot and forward currencies for over 20 years at major U.S. and international banks, including Citibank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Dresdner Bank and Westdeutsche Landesbank, before joining Market News in 2000. She has appeared in the past on Forex-TV and is a member of the International Capital Markets Group, a New York based financial market networking group.

Heather Scott is MNI's Washington Deputy Bureau Chief of International News. She covers international economic issues including U.S. trade disputes and free trade negotiations, the Group of Seven, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and other emerging markets issues. She also created and coordinates MNI's coverage of the major economies in Latin America, after building a network of reporters in the region, pioneering the weekly LatamWatch feature, as well as the WorldWatch series.

Ms. Scott came to MNI in 1996 after nearly 10 years reporting in Venezuela, during period of unprecedented political turmoil that included the violent food riots of 1989, two coup attempts in 1992 and the peaceful ouster of the president in 1993. She is a 1986 graduate of Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, earning BA degrees in both Spanish and journalism, and minors in history and biology. Follow Heather on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MNILatamWatch

John Shaw has been MNI's Congressional Correspondent since 1991 and focuses most of his reporting on fiscal policy, but writes on trade, pensions, banking, China relations and many other issues. A native of Peoria, Illinois, he has an undergraduate degree in political science from Knox College and a master's degree in history from the University of New South Wales, a university in Sydney that he attended as a Rotary Graduate Fellow. Mr. Shaw is author of a 2002 book called "Washington Diplomacy" which includes profiles of more than 60 people involved in international affairs and most recently, is the author of "The Ambassador: Inside the Life of a Working Diplomat" published this year, describing the work of Jan Eliasson, Sweden's former ambassador to the U.S. and who is now president of the U.N. General Assembly.

Johanna Maria Treeck worked as a legal and financial journalist in London and Zurich before joining Market News International in Frankfurt. Having gathered experience in TV and a series of leading British and German publications, she turned to financial newswires and quickly discovered her passion for the exciting world of real time reporting.

As a senior correspondent at Thomson Financial News, Johanna Maria covered SWX listed companies as well as the Swiss National Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, and key Swiss economic indicators. Her keen interest in macro economic developments and policies prompted her to join Market News International to report on the ECB and national central banks.

Johanna Maria graduated with an International Baccalaureate at the United World College, Singapore. She holds a Bachelor degree of Politics and South East Asian Studies from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies as well as a Master of International Journalism from City University, London.