David Faber (CNBC)
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 David Faber during Squawk on the Street, 2007-11-15 |
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| Born | March 10, 1964 | |
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David Faber is a market news analyst for CNBC, and appears on Squawk on the Street (along with Mark Haines and Erin Burnett). He was dubbed "The Brain" by co-workers after he broke the Enron scandal. He has hosted several documentaries on corporations such as Wal-Mart and eBay; the Wal-Mart piece earned Faber a Peabody Award. Faber joined CNBC in 1993 after seven years at Institutional Investor. He is a graduate of Tufts University where he earned a bachelors degree in English. In 2001, Faber was considered to be a strong contender for the co-anchor chair of CNN's then-popular Moneyline. [1]
In addition to Squawk on the Street, Faber hosts the network's monthly program, Business Nation, which debuted on January 24, 2007.
David Faber is best known for on Wall St. was live on the air in 2000, when he told the CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, his stations (CNBC) parent company, that United Technologies was going to buy Honeywell. General Electric then went to bid on Honeywell a few days later, and the European Union stopped the merger in 2001.
[edit] Host shows
- Business Nation (2007-01-24-present)
- Bull Session (1997(?))
