CNBC

You’ll learn more from not ever watching these idiots.

I can’t believe anyone agreed to your questions for the Republican Debate Tonight. You are like the bully on the playground. I figured that CNBC would have questions of substance… not questions that were akin to the National Enquirer! SHAME ON YOU!

Nobody does it better than CNBC.

CNBC has a lot of issues. CNBC, unlike Bloomberg, is too political. The only issue that I have with Bloomberg is that they do not have a tape and they show the two day chart instead of quotes at the bottom of the screen. I don’t have as big an issue with Betty Liu as some posters do, but find her a bit bland.
CNBC got rid of a lot of their better reporters. When they get rid of someone, they pretend like they never existed. CNBC is a bit of a modeling show focusing in on hot looking female reporters who have credentials but aren’t necessary the best available.
Dick Santilli is a joke. He isn’t even creditable. He is an embarrassment to CNBC. Maria got bitter over the last 20 years plus. Trish was great but they dumped her. Kelly is just dumb and started out with a chip on her shoulder about Melissa Lee for some reason and then they made her mellow out. When Mark died they snuffed Erin and she left. My two favorites are Steve and David. Kramer is a bit much. I liked him better before Gene Hackman trained him to be more animated.
Another bitter biased commentator is Joe. He got passed over and they threw him on a show that is not even seen by the entire West Coast. He is a bit better than Dick Santilli.
If I were Dick, and thank the Universe I’m not, I would not be proud to have started a political party who worships Sara Palin, Michelle Bachman, and Rand Paul. It goes to creditability. Speaking of bad jokes, when did Joe become the anchor and Becky not? He must of threatened to go to Fox. I’d pack his bags for Joe.
CNBC is nor more of a news channel than Fox News. Bloomberg needs to tweak it’s «background screen». I would switch in a NY minute. But they haven’t. So I’m stuck with CNBC.

CNBC is like TMZ for stocks. They’re always creating drama around individual stocks and the market. They bring on the doom and gloom people when the market is falling, really bullish people when the market is rising. They don’t help viewers at all, mostly try to profit off fear by selling advertising. Last but not least, they let all of their good people go like Erin Burnett and Maria Bartiromo of closing bell.
Jim Cramer hated Apple below $ 400, now he loves it above $ 650 (pre split). How does that help the individual investor? As a trader/​investor for over 16 years, my advice is to keep the TV off or you will get caught up in CNBC’s drama circus.

CNBC recently bought the Nightly Business Report (NBR), a PBS financial program, and fired the entire Miami and Chicago staffs. Only Susie Garhib remains from NBR.
NBR was already on a downhill slide since anchor Paul Kangas was forced out and replaced by Tom Hudson from the Chicago-​based First Business program. Now Tom has been forced out and replaced by lightweight CNBC news reader Tyler Matheson. Tyler exudes arrogance, implies that the average investor is stupid for not rushing right back into a volatile stock market, and seems to spin every issue in weird ways.
The graphics of the daily market results are now so small and move across the screen so fast that they are useless as sources of market information. There is very little information on commodities (probably because they fired the entire Chicago staff). You cannot even provide any feedback on these awful changes unless you have a Facebook account (you have got to be kidding!).
Our family watched NBR every night since it’s inception. After watching today’s fluff, we will just skip it in the future.
PBS may want to re-​evaluate whether they should keep NBR in the PBS lineup since it is now obviously just a mouthpiece for CNBC.

the worst programming next to time warner. after the market closes they go to repeat programming from 5 years ago and longer. who the hell cares. another company ripping off the viewers again. DON’T BOTHER

It’s late at night… well, actually, early in the morning PST.
I’m watching CNBC and realize… what a load of crock.
In the midst of one of the greatest financial disasters in recent history, a disaster they had no idea would happen, or at least were not willing to seriously investigate (again in my opinion), they are actually spending air time listing the top 10 billionaires of 2008.
What the F#&K!
Interviewing fund managers saying that stocks will go up, who probably hold long positions in the stock with some put options to hedge the downside… self serving in my opinion. Talking with hedge fund managers who might have speculated with extreme leverage on risky derivatives and are now blaming policy makers for the problem.
«Journalist» who appear to be 99.99% Posner/​Friedman Cool-​Aid drinkers, global warming doubtists… fair and balanced?
CNBC is increasingly the news equivalent of your S&M madam… lots of eye candy who are more than glad to say that YOU are the problem, whip and punish you for ephemeral wrongdoings, and then you have the privilege of paying them for the humiliation.
I want off this bus.

I like their partnership with Dow jones because of the access to Wall Street Journal’s reporters. I wish they showed European business news in the middle of the night instead of informercials. I’m not sure why CNBC Asia is headquartered in Singapore when Hong Kong is the financial center. Mad Money is kind of hilarious when he’s not yelling. (Sound effects don’t belong in a financial show unless they’re marketing it for people with ADD or something.) The double ticker is annoying to read.

When I’m not outside working, I’m paying attention to the markets and business news… that’s when I have CNBC running in the background. My favorite anchor person? BILL GRIFFETH hands down! He’s sharp, articulate, witty, to the point and always, always ALWAYS professional. Right behind is Erin Burnett. She’s also elequent in speech and dresses well… take note Sue Herrerra, (step away from those solid jackets!) and Maria Bartiromo, I can’t take that lisp. Sorry to be a bit caddy, but if you’re in front of the camera for a living, you should be easy on the eyes and ears.
Why only 4 stars, you ask? Perhaps if there were no commercials, I’d give it a 5 star rating, but I understand that programs are paid by advertisers. And some of those advertisers interrupt the ticker symbol streamline quotes that run across the bottom of the screen, (and the markets across the top). Annoying. Can’t any of you program directors figure out abbreviated advertising?
Otherwise, Bill, Erin, rock on!

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Let me tell you about my experience with CNBC, Cable channel 44 on Charter Communications Cable TV in Northborough and at
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They have EXCELLENT BUSINESS NEWS DAILY! Their interviews with superstars like Warren Buffett and Boone Pickens can really give you insight into the market and their stock and sector favorites.
Men and business women will love watching reporting personalities Erin Burnett (love her hair), Sharon Epperson (can’t miss her live presentations and Energy Source Blog) and Maria Bartiromo (wall street celeb) with their energetic presentations, articulate market reviews, specials, wit and enternainment perfection. For other GREAT female reporters check out CNBC TV section on
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Gals and businessmen will really enjoy my personal favorite, Jim Cramer for his hubris, energetic and less than humble Mad Money and Stop Trading show and segment that are REAL MARKET MOVERS! Rick Santelli, Bob Pisani, Dylan Ratigan, Mark Haines and my second personal favorite, Pete Najarian (I grew up in Watertown, MA) are all amazing with their charm and market expertise. There are other great and handsome reporters — check out CNBC TV section for more.
Morning CNBC TV watchers will LOVE THE — LIVE — PRE-​MARKET TICKER to show how the markets will start out for the day. The CNBC coverage of the FED is timely and expertly covered and reviewed. If you’re really good you can gauge the commercials and how they play into the market. Earnings reports can make or break a stock (and sectors) and you’ll want to listen to or read (on
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If you watch regularly you’ll see that solar and alternate energy stocks tend to go higher when gas/​oil goes higher, for obvious reasons. Boone Pickens placed the largest ever wind farm order from GE recently to help fuel the alternate energy CRAZE and he recommends Nat Gas as the way of eliminating our oil import dependencies.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE GAS PRICES? Well, if you’re a faithful CNBC watcher you would beg to have them replay an interview with one of the OPEC execs from a year or two ago that addressed that very question. And the answer that billionaire exec gave, and I can only summarize to the best of my memory because I didn’t tape it, was that OIL IS A BUSINESS. and if they can raise prices and we pay it, they will do that to give returns to their investors, as all businesses do.
ALSO as a faithful CNBC watcher you might initially wonder why the SEC investigated that couple that profited heavy from the DOW Jones, News Corp purchase offer announcement because that announcement I believe was made on CNBC some time within a month or two previous to the official announcement, made as an unexpanded blurb/​spec with that exact price range, of around 60 $. I remember because I started research right away after the blurb and I thought it was Ticker: DOW because they never mentioned the ticker. It was pursued and settled as a real insider trading case, but I remember looking into it myself, before the initial announcement … wish I had actually invested … But I digress …
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political rant here, beware …
Oil just hit an all time inter-​day high of above 130.00 dollars a barrel on the inventory report from the oil companies that show declining inventories on oil and gas.
WELL, Conspiracy lovers, did you catch Jim Cramer’s subtle if not overlooked question to the CEO of the dry bulk shipper CEO at Nordic American (see the details and/​or watch the interview here
) about Iran using Nordic’s ships to STORE, NOT SHIP, their oil. Hmmmm. I interpret that as HIGHER INVENTORIES, just they are being HELD BACK. And I doubt Iran is the only one doing this.
So, this wonderful USA Government — why can’t we do something about this? More importantly, who in our govt can?

Dear CNBC,
I can’t imagine that you’re hurting for advertising money. So what gives? Why do you have to play that fucking Mercedes commercial with that annoying song «(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons» every five god damned minutes? I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you… Do you have any idea how fucking annoying that song is? Does Mercedes know that most people don’t even know that it’s actually a commercial for Mercedes? Or that when they do find out they are going to want to ram garbage trucks into every Mercedes they see on the street? That super hot guy in the commercial? I’m pretty sure that if I ran into him on the street, I’d punch him in the face. And whose fault is that, CNBC? That’s right, it’s yours.
If you don’t stop playing it, I am going to be forced to start prank calling all of your senior management and playing that song at all hours of the night. Trust me, it’s worse than Chinese water torture.
Thank you,
Hates Mercedes Commercials in SF
P. S. I wouldn’t mind if you fired Jim Cramer and Maria Bartiromo (trust me — even the guys who used to think she was hot now just find her to be an arrogant blowhard who usually has no idea what she’s talking about).