Oscar Hayatt

Freelance Markets & Political Economy Columnist, Global Markets Review

Oscar Hayatt is a freelance markets and political economy columnist working with Global Markets Review. He writes about capital, companies and the economic forces that sit behind market narratives, with a particular interest in the gap between what investors are told and what corporate filings, operating data and policy decisions actually show.

Before contributing to Global Markets Review, Hayatt worked in investigative journalism across a number of publications in the United States and the Middle East. That background informs a more sceptical, evidence-led style: he is less interested in repeating the market's consensus than in testing whether the underlying facts support it.

His columns range across consumer economics, corporate strategy, energy, industrial policy and market structure. They are deliberately opinionated, but the argument is expected to survive contact with primary sources.