Michael Juliano is a stock market reporter at Benzinga. He has worked as a journalist since 1998, most recently as a U.S. correspondent for TradeWinds, the world's largest maritime business publication. He also worked as a business reporter for the Republican-American in Waterbury, Connecticut and the Stamford Advocate in Stamford before working as a general assignment reporter for weekly newspapers based in Connecticut's Fairfield County. In his spare time, he watches crime documentaries, follows politics and observes human behavior at coffee shops.