Cheryl Cecile Casone (born July 18, 1970)[1] is an American television news anchor on the Fox Business. Casone serves as a financial contributor and provides weekly job reports. She also reports on the Fox News.[2]
Early life
Born in Clearwater, Florida,[1] Casone's father was an engineering consultant for the government, and during her childhood she lived in Sweden for about a year. Later she lived in Ohio and then moved to Dallas, Texas and then moved to Phoenix, Arizona.[1] She graduated from high school in 1988 from Thunderbird High School in Phoenix.[3] She considers both Dallas and Phoenix as "Home".[1] After high school, Casone attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, graduating with a B.S. in 1992, majoring in Public Relations.[4]
According to Casone that after graduating from college, "[I] took a little bit of a detour. I was a flight attendant (Southwest Airlines) for five years, and I traveled the world... I went to Africa and Australia and Europe-mostly Western Europe. I went to New Zealand, I went to Nepal."[1]
Professional career
Casone moved to San Francisco, California in 1997. She began attending a community college and began her career at CNX Media on the nationally syndicated program "Travel Update.".[2][1] She later moved to KRON-TV and served as a business and general assignment reporter.[2][5] and also anchored a business news show.
In June 2004, moved to New York City with a position at MSNBC and occasional anchor of MSNBC Live from July 2004 until September 2005. In addition Casone was a freelance reporter for CBS News, as a general assignment reporter;[2] and as freelance business correspondent for CNN, primarily reporting from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).[2] She joined Fox News in November 2006.[2]
At Fox, she is a former host of Cashin' In and a frequent guest host of The Claman Countdown.[6] Casone is also the former host of "Fox Business Now," an hourly business web update that can be viewed on Yahoo and FoxNews.com.
