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Neil Cavuto



Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, ''Your World with Neil Cavuto'' and ''Cavuto on Business'', both on the Fox News Channel and ''Cavuto'' on sister channel Fox Business Network.

Cavuto also tapes a nightly wrap up of business news which airs on local FOX affiliates during the late news and has a syndicated radio business news segment that airs on weekday afternoons. He is the senior vice president and managing editor of business news for the Fox Business Network, and oversees content and business coverage.

Cavuto is the author of two books: ''More Than Money'' and ''Your Money or Your Life''.

Biography


Early life


Cavuto was born in Westbury, New York, and raised in Danbury, Connecticut, where he attended Immaculate High School. He worked as a White House intern during U.S. president Jimmy Carter's administration, graduated from St. Bonaventure University, and earned a master's degree from American University. His father's family is Italian American and his mother's family is Irish American.

Career


Neil Cavuto became the managing editor of business news and television anchor of ''Your World with Neil Cavuto'' on Fox News Channel in July 1996, later becoming a vice president of business news in March 2006. He serves all three positions concurrently. ''Your World'' is Fox's main business news program.

Before joining Fox, he hosted ''Power Lunch'' on CNBC and contributed to NBC's ''Today''. He worked with the Public Broadcasting Service for 15 years. He was also a New York bureau chief.

He has been awarded numerous times by his peers in the journalism industry, including recognition by the ''Wall Street Journal'' as the best interviewer in business news, best business television interviewer four consecutive years, and five nominations for Cable ACE awards. Cavuto was also awarded the 1980 Hellinger Award, the highest award for graduating journalism students from Saint. Bonaventure University. Cavuto has Interviewed many high profile business, political and world leaders which include, Eric Schmidt, Steven Ballmer, George Soros, Jon Corzine, Tom J. Donohue, Maurice Greenberg, Steve Forbes, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Mort Zuckerman, Mel Karmazin, T. Boone Pickens, Robert Crandall, Jerry Jones, Robert L. Johnson, Steven Wynn, Russell Simmons, Richard Branson, Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Martha Stewart, Wilbur Ross, Ken Langone, Richard Grasso, John Thain, Paul Tagliabue, and Fay Vincent; Former Secretaries of State Alexander Haig, George Schultz, Lawrence Eagleburger, and Madeleine Albright; House Speaker Newt Gingrich & Dennis Hastert; Attorney-General Robert Bork & John Ashcroft; Former Secretaries of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady, Lawrence Summers, Paul H. O'Neill, John W. Snow; FED Chairman Alan Greenspan; S.E.C. chairman William H. Donaldson and Harvey Pitt; Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Vice-Presidents Dan Quayle, Dick Cheney; American/foreign politicians such as George McGovern, Geraldine Ferraro, Michael Dukakis, Jack Kemp, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, John McCain, Karl Rove, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, George J. Mitchell, Leon Panetta, Michael Steele, Winston Spencer-Churchill, Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken, Daniel Hannan, and Garry Kasparov; Israel's current and former Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres; Prince Al-Waleed; Colombian President Alvaro Uribe; former Australian Prime Minister John Howard; and the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili.

Cavuto is also the author of ''More Than Money: True Stories of People Who Learned Life's Ultimate Lesson'' (ISBN 0-06-009643-8) and ''Your Money or Your Life'' (ISBN 0-06-082617-7).

Personal life


Cavuto and his wife, Mary Fulling, whom he married on October 15, 1983, have three children, Tara, Bradley and Jeremy. They reside in Mendham, New Jersey.

Cavuto has suffered health problems, saying, "I don't hide that I have had a tough life in many respects. I fought back a near-life-ending cancer, only to end up with multiple sclerosis years later. Doctors have since told me that the odds of contracting both diseases in the same life are something like two million to one! Yet here I am, marching on, continuing to do my job when doctors who've examined my scans and MRIs tell me I shouldn't be walking or talking."

He is of Irish and Italian descent.


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