11-04-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Bonus: Trump's Tariff Backtrack Rocked Markets. What Do Investors Need to Know? - WSJ's Take On the Week
Telis Demos is a writer for Heard on the Street and is co-host of The Wall Street Journal's Take on the Week, a weekly podcast about markets and finance. He covers the world of money and banking, spanning too-big-to-fail banks, Wall Street, private markets, crypto, insurance, mortgages, credit cards, financial technology and beyond.
He joined the Journal in 2012 to cover initial public offerings, and reported on a wave of IPOs from Alibaba to Zillow. That broadened to the red-hot market for private 'unicorn' financing. He then took on a newly established role, writing about the rise of financial-technology upstarts and banks' efforts to modernize. He joined Heard on the Street in 2019.
Telis's work with colleagues on the rise of private markets for Silicon Valley tech startups won a Scripps Howard Award. He was part of the team that was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the takeover of the New York Stock Exchange. He and his colleagues won a New York Press Club award for coverage of Alibaba's IPO. While writing for Heard on the Street, Telis was part of a team that won a SABEW award for coverage of the collapse of First Republic, and was a Loeb finalist for coverage of the 2023 banking crisis.
Prior to joining the Journal, Telis covered markets and finance for the Financial Times in New York and London. He began his financial journalism career at Fortune magazine, after starting out as a reporter-researcher at the New Republic in Washington, D.C. In college, he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator.
