Natsuko Waki

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Position: Correspondent

Since joining Reuters as a graduate trainee in 2000, Natsuko has reported on issues surrounding global financial markets, monetary policy and central banking from Tokyo, Singapore, London, Paris, Madrid, Davos, Moscow and Istanbul. She won the Reuters best scoop of the year in 2007 for a story on China's foreign exchange reserves policy and was also given State Street's best journalist of the year award in the same year. Currently based in London, she covers global investment issues on the Investment Strategy Desk.

Articles

Global stocks steady; sterling down after Fitch November 10, 12:40pm EST

LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks held near a two-week high on Tuesday, underpinned by positive reports from UK banks and hopes that policymakers would keep easy monetary policy, while a downbeat German sentiment survey weighed on the euro. Full Article

GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks rise as risk favoured; sterling down

One last hurrah before year-end

GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks, oil rise ahead of Fed policy verdict

GLOBAL MARKETS-Bank troubles hit world stocks, dollar up

Bank troubles hit world stocks, dollar up

Blog Posts

Chile, Singapore among most transparent SWFs

Chile, UAE, Singapore, Azerbaijan, Ireland and Norway claim top rankings on the latest transparency index, published by SWF Institute. At the bottom of the ranking is Venezuela, Oman, Nigeria, Mauritania, Kiribati, Iran, Brunei and Algeria. Full Article | Comments [1]

Being socially responsible investor in the Gulf

Socially responsible investing, which takes into account social, environmental and governance risks, is arguably still in its infancy in the Gulf, where the enormous wealth created by hydrocarbons sometimes flows into extravagant projects like an indoor ski resort. Full Article

Australia's SWF lags in returns

Australia's Future Fund reveals that the fund's mixed asset portfolio (excluding Telstra holding) returned 5.6 percent in the third quarter. Full Article