Gawd! You gotta love this lady!

[zyzzyva57]

From the Wall Street Journal, 1/26/07:

Citigroup records show that Ms. [Maria Bartiromo] flew on its corporate jets a few times, but Mr. [Todd Thomson] tried but failed to get her on the jet on at least one occasion. More than a year ago, Mr. Thomson was entertaining some private-banking clients on a ski vacation at his home in the members-only Yellowstone Club resort near Bozeman, Mont. While there, he requested a Citigroup plane to fly Ms. Bartiromo to his house, according to a person familiar with the situation. The Citigroup official who was asked to approve the requisition rejected it. Ms. Bartiromo ultimately didn't make the trip, the person said. Ms. Bartiromo and Mr. Thomson declined to comment, according to the spokesman for both, Charles McLean.

Inside CNBC and NBC Universal, according to executives and reporters for the channel, there is a feeling that the channel and Ms. Bartiromo have been caught in unfair crossfire from Citigroup. These people say Citigroup was concerned that Mr. Thomson might be leaking Ms. Bartiromo information -- particularly after the anchor broke the news that former chairman Sanford Weill planned to leave the company -- and therefore didn't distance her from the Thomson imbroglio. A Citigroup spokeswoman declined to comment.

This isn't the first time Ms. Bartiromo has garnered attention over journalistic issues. Last spring, Ms. Bartiromo ran into Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at a cocktail party before the annual White House correspondents' dinner and asked him if his public statements were being misinterpreted by investors. He said yes. Ms. Bartiromo reported the scoop on her Monday program, roiling financial markets. She drew criticism because the annual dinner is widely known to be an off-the-record event. Ms. Bartiromo said Mr. Bernanke was speaking for attribution at the time.

[Svenwulf]

was having tech troubles or would have posted sooner. and i thought bratz were a bad influence on little girls.

CNBC 'Money Honey' seeks branding trademark

Maria Bartiromo has filed applications to get a patent that will allow for the trademark to appear on kids' products.

January 29 2007: 1:36 PM EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- CNBC news anchor Maria Bartiromo, whose jet-setting has roiled America's biggest bank, wants to sweeten the pot on her "Money Honey" nickname, making it a brand on children's TV, piggy banks and cookie jars.
A week before Bartiromo's name surfaced in connection with the ouster of Citigroup (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=C) (down $0.50 to $54.17, Charts (http://money.cnn.com/quote/chart/chart.html?symb=C)) senior executive Todd Thomson, she filed several applications with the U.S. patent office to trademark her Money Honey moniker.

The applications show that Bartiromo is casting a wide net. Besides kids' TV and books, the Money Honey trademark would appear on school supplies, DVDs, mouse pads, jigsaw puzzles, dolls, and backpacks, among other items.
The applications were filed on Jan. 16.
Bartiromo was not available for comment.

She's been mum about the Citigroup controversy, but remains a fixture on the business news channel, reporting last week from the snowy backdrop of Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
The brunette from Brooklyn got her nickname from the New York tabloids in the late 1990s when she started reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Her trademark applications went unnoticed until after Thomson lost his job as the head of Citigroup's wealth management division, which had $10.2 billion in revenue last year.
Bartiromo was part of the buzz after published reports said Thomson flew her to New York from China on a Citigroup corporate jet.
Thomson also spent $5 million of corporate funds to sponsor a show on the Sundance Channel that would include Bartiromo as a host, The Wall Street Journal reported. That sort of spending isn't what Citigroup needed as the bank battles to shrink an expense line that's growing faster than revenue.
The rising expenses have put Citigroup Chief Executive Chuck Prince on the hot seat, forcing him to reshuffle executives to improve performance and placate anxious investors weary of the underperforming stock.
CNBC, meanwhile, has backed Bartiromo, saying her plane ride was approved by her managers, and that the business channel paid Citigroup for her flight.
A unit of General Electric Co. (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=GE) (up $0.19 to $36.26, Charts (http://money.cnn.com/quote/chart/chart.html?symb=GE)), CNBC has steered clear in its broadcasts of Bartiromo's connection to the Citigroup story.
Not only have questions been raised about Bartiromo's impartiality in regard to Citigroup, but there has also been criticism of CNBC in journalism circles for avoiding the story.

[Svenwulf]

wow i love the trash in the post-

July 27, 2007 -- CNBC might not be big enough for both the Money Honey, Maria Bartiromo, and the Street Sweetie, Erin Burnett.
Insiders say Bartiromo is in an uproar over her ravishing rival Burnett, who's begun to upstage her at the business news channel.
An inside source tells Page Six the Money Honey has been fuming that curvy Burnett, in addition to her duties as anchor of "Street Signs" and co-anchor of "Squawk on the Street," is getting substantial airtime on the "Today" show, which gives her a much bigger audience. "Maria is like, hey, why isn't it me on the 'Today' show? She's very jealous of all the attention Erin is getting," our source said.

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Some of Burnett's fans have even labeled her "Maria 2.0," while Bartiromo has acquired another nickname, "The Bank Skank."

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more on the link:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

[TonyM]

Haha, the bank skank, nice. I'd like to see both of them in a market discussion including the women from Bloomberg, I wonder if that would deflate their ego's? Nah, they'd probably roll their eyes at the outfits the b/b reporters were wearing...as if, omg.

[zyzzyva57]

Why I stay away from female newsreaders

Sexist? Yea, next?

If I want sexy newsreaders, I will go with FOX's vagina lipped, leggy female newsreaders, who don't hide why they are there

Thankfully, with RSS feeds, I need less and less both male and female newsreaders--I love being able to create my own newspaper

Other than Cramer and "Fast Money," CNBC is toxic to rationality with its Talking Heads with their blinding 20/20 hindsight

[Billionaire Boy]

http://www.dailyspeculations.com/sears/MARIA.jpg

[zyzzyva57]

With those "V" lips :lol:, this lady is headed for Fox Business Network

CNBC is gonna lose her

Heck, she may accidentally stumble on say what a P/E really is

She is a most saucy knock-out, so the heck with P/E's!

Can you say, "Hello, FOX"

[TonyM]

With those "V" lips :lol:, this lady is headed for Fox Business Network

CNBC is gonna lose her

Heck, she may accidentally stumble on say what a P/E really is

She is a most saucy knock-out, so the heck with P/E's!

Can you say, "Hello, FOX"


Not too appealing to me, take away the make-up and I'll bet she's downright hideous. By the way, 'v' lips are so non-pc...they're properly called dsl's.;)