Matt Day

Dow Jones is a leading provider of business and financial news reporting and data, along with Bloomberg News and Thompson Reuters. Based in New York, the company print and digital media holdings that include the namesake financial news wire, Barron's, MarketWatch, Smart Money and its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.

I work full time as a reporting intern on the Newswires' energy and commodities desk at the New York headquarters. The desk is responsible, along with Dow Jones bureaus worldwide, for covering developments in the production and trading of oil and natural gas, coal and nuclear energy, precious and industrial metals, and agricultural commodities. I cover the energy futures and precious and industrial metals markets.

I have reported on the futures markets, writing previews, recaps and commentary on  trading in New York, getting perspective from market players, analysts and economists. I was expected to learn quickly, developing the ability to evaluate the complex set of forces weighing on the minds of investors each day -- from macroeconomic and political forces, to fundamentals of supply and demand and headlines from markets around the world.

In addition to my work's presence on the Newswires, my reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal in print and online. (Examples below, more are forthcoming)

-A broad commodities piece on the effects fears of an economic slowdown had across markets. Link here.

-A record-setting day for gold prices as confidence in the recovery in the stock market and job growth wavered. Touches on the impact to other, industrial commodities. Link here.

-A turn in oil prices as the European debt crisis and U.S. economic outlook stabilized. Link here.

-Oil futures coverage, highlighting an increase in prices as data pointed to a stronger-than-expected U.S. economic recovery. Link here.