Alexis Christoforous
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Alexis Elizabeth Christoforous (b. October 19th 1971) is a business reporter, anchor, and former show host seen on CBS Network TV on "The Early Show" and WCBS-TV News on Channel 2 in New York on "CBS 2 News This Morning" and "CBS 2 News at Noon" and "CBS 2 News at Five". She also makes reports on "CBS News Sunday Morning". Alexis can sometimes be seen on WCBS TV's "Eye On New York" Sunday mornings at 6:30AM. Alexis graduated cum laude from New York University. She is a daughter of June and Alexander Christoforous of Brooklyn. Her father retired as the manager of Josephine's, a former restaurant in Manhattan. Her Mother is of Italian descent. She is chief and CBS News Moneywatch reporter. She was also host of the former CBS Network show Marketwatch Weekend on Sunday mornings. Marketwatch Weekend ended its TV series, after 365 episodes and 7 years in August 2006. Sometimes Alexis substitutes for other news anchors for WCBS TV News.
She is presently broadcasting directly from new CBS News offices on Wall Street, inside the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Alexis is sometimes seen reporting from inside the NASDAQ Marketsite Tower in Times Square in New York City. She is known for her high fashion clothes. In 2005, she was seen wearing a tight bright orange minidress while videotaping outside NASDAQ at Times Square. Recently, Alexis did a report on women who buy Motorcycles or Choppers and drove around on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle wearing a black leather outfit.
Alexis also occasionally does interviews with famous celebrities. Before working at CBS News Marketwatch, she was a business reporter for Bloomberg Television where she met her husband. Alexis is also a professor of broadcasting at New York University. She is of Greek and Italian descent and married to Karl Peter Kilb III and has two children."MarketWatch" is a partnership between CBS News and Dow Jones & Company. In January 2005, Marketwatch was bought by Dow Jones. CBS News Moneywatch is a trademark of CBS News. She has been nicknamed The Greek Goddess of Wall Street News Anchors by fans on the Internet and has achieved a cult following of sorts on the Internet, similar to her counterpart Maria Bartiromo who is nicknamed the "Money Honey". She has become somewhat of a mover and shaker and rattler in Wall Street, with her hard hitting noon reports that can seemingly change the stock markets closing bell Dow Jones Average.
