Jim Kharouf is editor-in-chief
of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. and 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.
