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Spencer Jakab
Spencer Jakab writes Markets A.M. for The Wall Street Journal. He previously led Heard on the Street and wrote the Journal’s Ahead of the Tape column and the Financial Times’ Lex column. Before journalism, he worked as an equity analyst and led an emerging-markets research team at Credit Suisse.
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