Jim Kharouf is editor of the Environmental Markets Newsletter.

 He has been a reporter and editor since 1989 covering all aspects of business from stock, options and futures markets to real estate. 

As a freelance writer and editor since 2001, Mr. Kharouf writes extensively on securities, indexes, commodities, currencies and bonds in the United States, Europe and Asia and currently serves as the US correspondent for Futures & Options Week. He also contributes regularly to magazines such as Stocks, Futures and Options – SFO Magazine, Active Trader and The Banker.

He also helped launch Traders Source magazine in January 2004 and served as editor of that publication, which covered financial and commodities futures and options markets.

Mr. Kharouf has extensive experience with daily and weekly newspapers in the US and Europe. He reported on banking and technology for the Budapest Business Journal in Hungary from 1995 to 1996. He also served as an associate editor for Futures Magazine, covering international markets and reporting on various market sectors from 1996 to 1998.

Prior to working in Budapest, he covered the retail sector in Chicago, Chicago real estate and the U.S. and local economy as a business writer for the Daily Southtown from 1992 to1995. Mr. Kharouf began his reporting career in North Carolina in 1989, reporting for the Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, NC and then the Goldsboro News-Argus in Goldsboro, NC from 1990 to 1992.

He graduated from Marquette University in 1989 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in journalism and political science. He resides and works in Chicago.  Jim can be contacted at jimkharouf@johnlothian.com.