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Tracy Alloway · Joe Weisenthal

Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal explore the workings of markets and the economy with people close to the subject. Follow the conversations into the companies, financial systems, and practical details behind a headline.

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Useful for finding a question to investigate beyond the daily market narrative.

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Tracy Alloway, co-host of Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast

Bloomberg journalist and Odd Lots co-host

Tracy Alloway

Tracy Alloway co-hosts Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, which she helped launch with Joe Weisenthal in 2015. Her reporting examines financial markets, economic systems and the businesses that connect them. Before concentrating on the show, she led Bloomberg’s Asia Pacific news desk and Cross-Asset Markets team and worked as a television anchor in the Middle East. Earlier, she covered US banks and markets at the Financial Times and served as deputy editor of FT Alphaville.

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Joe Weisenthal, co-host of Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast

Bloomberg journalist and Odd Lots co-host

Joe Weisenthal

Joe Weisenthal co-hosts Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast with Tracy Alloway, exploring markets, finance and economics through conversations with practitioners and specialists. His financial journalism began with TheStalwart.com in 2005, followed by writing for outlets including Dealbreaker and Techdirt. He joined Business Insider in 2008 and Bloomberg in 2014. At Bloomberg, his work has included newsroom editing and co-hosting the market-close television program What’d You Miss? from 2015 to 2021.

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Profile checked September 18, 2026. Editorial notes are Perimeter’s interpretation.