Eric Volkman
Eric Volkman is a contributing finance and stock market analyst at The Motley Fool who specializes in concise, event-driven explainers of why individual stocks move. His coverage translates analyst calls, corporate deals, and sector news into clear takeaways for retail investors across technology, financial services, real estate, and industrial names. His articles are widely distributed through partners such as Yahoo Finance and AOL, amplifying his stock-move analysis to a broad online audience.
Why Advanced Micro Devices Stock Tanked on Tuesday
Volkman’s most distinctive work sits in the technology and semiconductor space, where he explains sharp moves in chipmaker stocks through specific catalysts rather than broad market commentary. In his recent piece on Advanced Micro Devices, he ties a nearly 7% drop in the share price to reports that Chinese AI developer DeepSeek plans its own inference chip, spelling out how potential in-house hardware could reduce reliance on suppliers like AMD and Nvidia and pressure third-party chip businesses.
He balances that risk with context on the complexity and cost of AI chip development, arguing that the sell-off looks overdone given the uncertainty that DeepSeek will ever bring a viable product to market. A similar structure appears in his coverage of Micron, where he connects the stock’s surge to sustained AI demand, showing how sector-specific growth narratives filter into individual equity performance.
His technology coverage extends beyond headline chip names to specialized power and components providers such as Vicor, where he dissects a strong week in the shares around news flow and market positioning.
He applies the same method to software makers like BlackLine, tracing a more than 5% decline in the stock to an analyst downgrade rooted in fears of AI-driven disruption to its accounting platform and treating those fears as a real but analyzable business risk. Across these pieces he uses short, time-stamped windows (“on Tuesday,” “this week,” “in September”) and clear causal chains, making it straightforward to see what changed and why it mattered for the stock.
Each article closes with explicit disclosure statements about his own holdings and The Motley Fool’s positions, reinforcing a consistent, investor-facing approach to transparency.
Why Thomson Reuters Stock Topped the Market on Thursday
Beyond pure tech, Volkman spends significant time on financial infrastructure and information-services companies, applying the same event-driven lens to names like Thomson Reuters and S&P Global. His Thomson Reuters piece tracks how company-specific developments helped the stock beat broader indices, making clear that this is not just a defensive holding but a business whose news and data products can drive investor enthusiasm. In his coverage of S&P Global, he highlights a day when the stock “beat the market,” tying the move to rating and data dynamics and helping readers understand how this kind of franchise responds to credit and capital-market trends.
These articles sit alongside work on communications and telecom-related players such as IDT, where he explains a “massive winner” week by focusing on the corporate actions and strategic steps that unlocked value for shareholders.
Volkman also writes on financial services products that touch consumers directly, including a recent analysis of the shake-up around Apple Card and the battle over its issuing bank and network. In that kind of piece he walks through how a change in issuer and network could alter economics for the card business, but he keeps the focus on what the shift means for the companies and their investors rather than broad lifestyle angles. Across these financial-services articles, he distinguishes himself from a generic beat reporter by treating each development as an investable thesis, spelling out whether news supports a buy, hold, or sell stance on the stock and grounding that view in valuation, competitive position, and payout profile.
He maintains a neutral, factual tone even when he labels a name a buy or a sell, as seen in his contrasting positions on Welltower and BlackLine.
Why Welltower Stock Topped the Market on Thursday
Volkman’s coverage regularly moves into real assets and industrials, where he applies the same catalyst-focused framework to sectors that are often covered only in broad macro terms. In his Welltower article, he attributes the REIT’s outperformance to an upgrade from a major Wall Street analyst, detailing the shift from neutral to overweight, the new price target, and how that call pushed the shares higher. He notes that popularity as a top pick has compressed the stock’s dividend yield to around 1.5%, showing that he weighs total-return trade-offs rather than treating an upgrade as unqualified good news.
In energy and industrial services, his Atlas Energy Solutions piece explains an almost 14% jump in the stock, tying the move to company-specific catalysts while situating it within investor sentiment toward equipment and services suppliers.
He occasionally steps into the space industry, analyzing deals such as Rocket Lab’s arrangement with Iridium and describing how added capabilities could create a more vertically integrated business and a potentially valuable new asset for the company. There he writes as an investor as much as an analyst, assessing how strategic combinations differ from larger peers and what that means for Rocket Lab’s long-term positioning. Taken together, his work in REITs, energy, and space shows a consistent pattern: he isolates a single, concrete event - an upgrade, a contract, a merger, a sector swing - and then walks through how it affects the risk-reward profile of the stock for shareholders today. The emphasis stays on current pricing, income, and growth prospects, keeping his coverage tightly aligned with decision-making in the financial markets.
4 more finance journalists.
Abigail Summerville
Abigail Summerville brings a leveraged finance background to her work covering consumer and retail mergers and acquisitions for Reuters. She reports on deal-making and capital markets across food, beverages, spirits, personal care, skincare, bath products and pet food. Her stories focus on transaction terms, ownership stakes, valuation, debt structures and funding sources. She often breaks news on potential sales and strategic reviews before formal announcements. Notable coverage includes Sazerac’s acquisition of Au Vodka, Blackstone’s exploration of a ZO Skin Health sale, CVC’s efforts to sell the parent of Dr Teal’s, and Colgate-Palmolive’s planned divestitures. She also covers consumer IPOs, including Jersey Mike’s and Black Rock Coffee, and co-writes Wall Street market reports. She joined Reuters in 2022 after three years covering leveraged finance and primary debt markets.
Adekunle Agbetiloye
Adekunle Agbetiloye is a senior reporter who connects capital flows, hard numbers and energy transition to the wider African economy. He works at Business Insider Africa, covering how money, technology and energy reshape economic growth, jobs and living conditions. His beat spans the African economy, technology, energy transition, climate change, startups and critical minerals, with a focus on concrete deals and data-led stories. He reports on African startup funding cycles, sovereign wealth funds, billionaire investors, multilateral and private investment programs, energy and power markets, Bitcoin mining, and economic policy choices. His work follows how governments finance spending, manage debt and respond to social pressure, and how sector snapshots and health and development metrics reveal links between macro indicators, corporate strategy and everyday costs.
Aimee Picchi
Aimee Picchi connects Social Security, retirement programs and economic policy directly to the financial security of ordinary Americans, showing how macro decisions hit household budgets. She is associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch at CBS News, covering business and personal finance with clear, accessible explanations of complex money issues. Her core beat is Social Security and retirement, interest rates and inflation, and how policy, markets and company strategies affect workers, retirees, savers and investors. She reports on benefit adequacy, looming Social Security cuts, COLA changes, Federal Reserve rate decisions, fuel costs, trade tensions and labor’s share of income, always framing coverage around pocketbook impacts. Her background includes retirement reporting fellowships, prior staff reporting on technology, media and business, an Institutional Investor book on affluent investors, and freelance work for national outlets. She also writes science fiction and fantasy and is a Nebula Award finalist.
Alex Harring
Alex Harring turns fast-moving market, economic and corporate developments into clear pre-market briefings that show what will matter when U.S. trading opens. He is a markets and economics reporter for CNBC’s digital platforms and writes Morning Squawk, a flagship daily newsletter that gives readers five key things to know before the stock market opens. His beat spans financial markets, investing, consumer trends and the U.S. economy, with coverage of central bank decisions, inflation, corporate strategy, sector moves and geopolitical shocks. He focuses on how policy, data and earnings shape equities, interest rates, currencies and investor positioning, linking price action with underlying drivers in real time and in reported features. Harring’s background reporting on corporate news, business and the economy across print, digital, broadcast and streaming informs his habit of connecting markets, companies and geopolitics in one frame.