Alister Bull is back at the Fed - for Bloomberg

Alister Bull (photo), a Reuters veteran who covered the Federal Reserve in Washington before leaving the agency last year, is back at the US central bank - reporting for arch-rival Bloomberg.

Bull left Reuters at the end of 2013 after taking a buyout offer from the company. He was one of many experienced journalists who left the agency last year.

In Washington, he had previously covered the White House and the Treasury. Other assignments since joining Reuters in 1987 included Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Iraq. ■