David H. Faber is a financial journalist and market

Stock market

A stock market or equity market is a public entity for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.The size of the world stock market was estimated at about $36.6 trillion...

 news analyst for the television cable network CNBC

CNBC

CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

. He is currently the co-host of CNBC's The Strategy Session

The Strategy Session

The Strategy Session was an investment television talk show on the CNBC television network that was aired for a half-hour, from noon to 12:30 ET, on weekdays...

, and appears on the show Squawk on the Street

Squawk on the Street

Squawk on the Street, which debuted on December 19, 2005, is a business show on CNBC that follows the first 90 minutes of trading on Wall Street in the United States....

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Career

Faber joined CNBC in 1993 after seven years at Institutional Investor

Institutional Investor (magazine)

Institutional Investor magazine is a monthly periodical published by Euromoney Institutional Investor. A separate international edition of the magazine was established in 1976 for readers in Europe and Asia. Capital Cities Communications purchased the magazine in 1984...

. He has been dubbed "The Brain" by CNBC co-workers. He has hosted several documentaries on corporations such as Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

 and eBay

EBay

eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...

; the Wal-Mart piece, The Age of Walmart, earned Faber a 2005 Peabody Award

Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...

 and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for Broadcast Journalism.

In 2001, Faber was considered to be a strong contender for the co-anchor chair of CNN's then-popular Moneyline

Moneyline

Moneyline may refer to:*Moneyline odds, a form of fixed-odds gambling also known as American odds*Moneyline, renamed Lou Dobbs Moneyline in 2001 and Lou Dobbs Tonight in 2003, a television series hosted by Lou Dobbs on Cable News Network...

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In addition to Squawk on the Street, Faber hosts the network's monthly program, Business Nation

Business Nation

Business Nation, which debuted on January 24, 2007, is a monthly hour-long newsmagazine airing on CNBC, focusing on the stories behind the business headlines...

, which debuted on January 24, 2007.

Faber is the author of three books; The Faber Report (2002), And Then the Roof Caved In (2009), and House of Cards: The Origins of the Collapse (2010).

Personal life

Faber is the son of businesswoman Belle B. Faber and lawyer Norman L. Faber, and married Jenny Harris in 2000. Jenny is a business journalist and television producer and is the daughter of lawyer Jay Harris (Hall Dickler Kent Friedman & Wood) and As The World Turns

As the World Turns

As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...

actress Marie Masters

Marie Masters

Marie Masters is an American actress.-Early years:Born Marie Mastruserio in Cincinnati, Ohio, Masters attended Marian College in Indiana. After graduation worked at the city desk of the publication Women's Wear Daily....

, and the fraternal twin sister of musician Jesse Harris

Jesse Harris

Jesse Harris is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter. He has collaborated with several musical artists including Norah Jones, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, Nikki Yanofsky, and Lizz Wright.-Early life and education:...

. He is a 1985 graduate cum laude of Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

degree in English.

External links

• David Faber Biography. - CNBC TV Profiles. - CNBC.com.