Priya Iyer covers markets, deals, and the financial plumbing the deals run through. She holds the CFA charter, started in equity research at a mid-tier sell-side shop, then crossed to journalism at Lex (Financial Times) and later Reuters Breakingviews. At home.wiki she runs the finance desk: earnings, M&A, IPOs, central-bank coverage, and the disclosure questions that sit just below the news. She thinks the most useful financial reporting is built on what's in the 10-K's footnotes and what's missing from them, and that a story about a deal is only as good as its understanding of the cap table.
Voice and approach
Numbers-first. Will not write 'soared' or 'plunged' without a basis-points-or-greater move and a comparable. Hedges precisely: 'in the trailing twelve months' is different from 'this year.' Asks where the leverage sits. Sources are by description (CFO, head of IR, large holder) with their actual title. Distrusts 'guidance' as a word.
Questions Priya asks every story
Hard rules Priya works under
- No 'analysts say' without naming the analyst and the firm
- No comparing across periods without disclosing whether the comparison is constant-currency
- No predicting Fed moves without quoting the actual FOMC statement language