The Trading Story. Behind the finance news
About this episode:
Why do some global disasters barely cause a ripple on the markets, while a small blip can cause them to drop sharply? How dependent are the markets on the 24-hour media cycle? Who better to ask than Ticky Fullerton, one of Australia's top business journalists and the host of a daily business finance news show on Sky News Business, called 'Ticky'. She worked for two decades at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a senior finance reporter, and investigative reporter for ‘Four Corners’. The idea behind her hour-long TV finance show is to provide some analysis to the nightly two-minute finance news, and to investigate further the intersection between business and politics. Ticky talks about breaking news on air within the Australian media landscape and the difference between opinion and fact.
Ticky Fullerton
Since joining the team in 2017, Ticky Fullerton anchors Ticky, which runs on weeknights on Sky News Business. Prior to this, Ticky presented the ABC's national business show ‘The Business’ and ‘Business PM’ on radio. In over 20 years with the broadcaster, she was both a prize-winning investigative reporter with Four Corners, a political reporter in Canberra and also the presenter for the national farming programme, ‘Landline’.
Ticky was an associate director with investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston and spent 10 years with the bank in both London and Sydney. She is a council member of the Australia British Chamber of Commerce and a friend of the Peter Cullen Trust. Previously she was a director of the CRC for Irrigation Futures. She is also the author of Watershed, Australia's first comprehensive book on the many stakeholders in the water sector. Ticky has a law degree from Oxford University and was Treasurer of the Oxford Union.