Caroline Hyde is a British journalist specialising in business and technology news. She currently co-anchors "Bloomberg Markets: The Close" show from New York. Prior to that she anchored Bloomberg Technology from San Francisco, and was the Berlin-based chief correspondent for

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, covering European business and technology since 2011 and

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ing the markets and investment show ''The European Open'' every morning.

Early life

Hyde studied at Oxford University and has a masters in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Upon graduation Hyde worked in public relations for London's Moorgate Group, where she was a debt market specialist, managing campaigns for clients including

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and

Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Banking Group plc is a British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. It is one of the UK's largest financial services organisations, with 30 million customers and 65,000 employees. Lloyds B ...

Bloomberg

Hyde joined Bloomberg in 2008 to cover the European debt markets for

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as a corporate finance reporter, focusing on company loans and bonds as well as sovereign debt. She covered the freeze in the European loan market following the collapse of

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and the unravelling of the European sovereign debt crisis, as well as breaking news on the sales and performance of government bonds from Greece ahead of its bailout. Moving to TV in 2011, she has interviewed economic leaders and political figures such as

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Chairman Bill Ford,

Unilever Unilever PLC () is a British multinational consumer packaged goods company headquartered in London, England. It was founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie with British soap maker Lever B ...

CEO

Paul Polman Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman, (born 11 July 1956) is a Dutch people, Dutch businessman and author. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the British/Dutch consumer goods company Unilever. Polman is also the co-author (with Andrew ...

, WPP CEO

Sir Martin Sorrell Sir Martin Stuart Sorrell (born 14 February 1945) is a British businessman and the founder of WPP plc, the world's largest advertising and PR group, both by revenue and the number of staff. Sorrell was the longest-serving chief executive of a ...

EasyJet EasyJet plc (styled as easyJet) is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport. It operates domestic and international scheduled services on 927 routes in more than 34 countries via its affiliate airlin ...

CEO

Carolyn McCall Dame Carolyn Julia McCall (born 13 September 1961) is a British businesswoman. She was the chief executive of EasyJet from 2010 to 2017. Early life McCall was born on 13 September 1961 in Bangalore, India. Her Scottish father, Arthur McCal ...

, Secretary General of the

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. In May 2016, she anchored ''On the Move'' with Guy Johnson from Berlin and has interviewed many important world figures including

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CEO Matthias Müller, German presidential candidate

Martin Schulz Martin Schulz (born 20 December 1955) is a German politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 1994 to 2017 and a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) from 2017 to 2021. During his tenure he was Leader of the Progress ...

and

Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leade ...

's Chief of Staff

Peter Altmaier Peter Altmaier (born 18 June 1958) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany), Acting Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2018 and as Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...

and Argentinian President

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. From December 2016 until May 2017, she anchored Bloomberg Technology in San Francisco while regular host Emily Chang was on maternity leave. She continues as the European Technology and Media presenter on Bloomberg Television. Hyde has interviewed technology leaders including Microsoft CEO

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, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty,

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Founder

Nathan Blecharczyk Nathan Blecharczyk /blə'ʃɑrzɪk/ (born 1983) is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, and chairman of Airbnb China. Blecharczyk was also the company's first chief technology officer. Blecharczyk is the 203rd richest person in ...

Salesforce Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence, and ap ...

CEO

Marc Benioff Marc Russell Benioff (born September 25, 1964) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. Benioff is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of ''Time (magazine ...

, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, inventor of the World Wide Web

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and

WhatsApp WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an American social media, instant messaging (IM), and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, make vo ...

CEO

Jan Koum Jan Borysovych Koum (born February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 bil ...

Awards

Shortlisted for Woman of the Future award in media in 2016.

External interests

Hyde is a supporter of Broadminded, a women's professional network that organises inspiring talks, practical advice and an environment where women can encourage and learn from each other.

Personal life

On 21 May 2016, Hyde married Ben Floyd.

References

External links

Caroline Hyde's page at Bloomberg.comCaroline Hyde's Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hyde, Caroline 1984 births Living people British journalists British women journalists Bloomberg L.P. people British women television journalists Writers from London Alumni of the University of Oxford British women television presenters