Alan Abelson (born 1925) is a veteran financial journalist, and has long written the influential Up and Down Wall Street column in Barron's magazine. He was editor of Barron's in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Abelson's columns have sometimes spawned controversy because of his often harsh critiques, and in the 1980s he was sued by some targets of his column. However, the suits were unsuccessful, and Abelson is widely viewed as a pioneer of tough coverage of Wall Street. View up Wall Street from Pearl Street NYSE and Broad Street view from Wall Street Wall Street is the name of a narrow street in lower Manhattan running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. ...