Dr. Ed Yardeni is the President of Yardeni Research, Inc., a provider of independent investment strategy research. In his widely-read publications, he explores trends in the economy and financial markets which are vital to a broad spectrum of investment decision makers.

Dr. Yardeni previously served as Chief Investment Strategist for Oak Associates, as Chief Investment Strategist and a Managing Director of Prudential Equity Group, as Chief Investment Strategist for Deutsche Bank, and Chief Economist for C.J. Lawrence, Prudential Securities, and E.F. Hutton.

Many of the world's top institutional investors subscribe to Dr. Yardeni's investment strategy service, which is available at www.yardeni.com.

He taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also held positions at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Yardeni completed his doctoral dissertation under Professor James Tobin, a Nobel Laureate, at Yale University. Previously, he received a masters degree in International Relations from Yale. He completed his undergraduate studies magna cum laude at Cornell University.

Dr. Yardeni has published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Barron's. He has appeared on numerous television and radio shows.

• Barrons, (Dec. 29, 2003): Ed Yardeni and Thomas McManus, Banc of America Securities strategist, came closest to calling this years finish when we polled them a year ago. Their 2003 S&P target: 1100.
• Barrons, (Dec. 6, 1999): "Long term, Yardeni remains a bull, as befits a primary architect of the Nineties New Paradigm School -- those who presciently saw this decade's bull market coming before other commentators."
• The Wall Street Journal, (Nov. 30, 1999): Mr. Yardeni has been ranked among the country's best economic forecasters, having accurately predicted the bull run in US stock prices in the 1990s."
• Barrons, (Oct. 4, 1999): "One of our longtime favorites is Deutsche Bank Securities' chief economist and global market investment strategist, Edward Yardeni. As the godfather of the economic New Paradigm School, he presciently predicted much of the bull market of the nineties."
• ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, (Jan. 5, 1999): "One of the most successful forecasters in the country."
• ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, (Jan. 2, 1998): "He is the best economic forecaster in the country.
• Barron's, (Nov. 3, 1997): "Few, if any, market seers have had a better stock-market forecasting record over the past decade than Yardeni. Not only has he been dead on in getting the dimension of the bull market right, he was among the first on Wall Street to grasp the importance of several bullish developments: themes like the technology-led productivity revolution and epochal unleashing of productive forces and consumer demand that the global triumph of free-market principles."
• Investor's Business Daily, (Sep. 18, 1997): He is "one of the top market forecasters of the decade."
• Institutional Investor, (Sep. 1997): He is one of "the 20 most important players on the financial Web."
• Barron's, (cover story, Aug. 4, 1997): "WALL STREET WIZARD: More than any other strategist, Ed Yardeni had been right on the stock market and the economy."