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    Alexandra Scaggs

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    Alexandra Scaggs is a reporter for FT Alphaville, covering markets, finance and economics. She rejoins the blog after a stint covering personal finance and bond markets for Barron's. Before she first joined Alphaville in 2016, she covered interest rates for Bloomberg and US equity markets for the Wall Street Journal.

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