Betty Liu

Biography

Betty Liu is a news anchor for Bloomberg Television, a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. She counts viewers down to the opening of the market. Personal life Liu was born in Hong Kong in 1965 and was raised in Philadelphia, PA, graduating magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English.[1] On September 14th 2002 she married Benjamin L. Walter. She is a mother of twin boys, Dylan and Zachary, who were born July 21st 2004. [edit] Career Liu jumpstarted her career in financial journalism while acting as the youngest-ever Taiwan Bureau Chief for Dow Jones Newswires.[1][2] After she left Dow Jones, she worked for several years as the Atlanta Bureau Chief for the Financial Times,[2][3] where she broke stories on top corporate and political leaders such as Coca-Cola ex-chief executive Douglas Daft, former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Returning to Asia as an anchor and correspondent for CNBC Asia,[2][4] Liu covered the daily market action in the Greater China region for all of CNBC's morning shows, including for CNBC's Squawk Box.[1] Over the course of her career, she has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Philadelphia magazine. She now works for Bloomberg TV. [edit] Awards In 1997, she received a Dow Jones Newswires Award for her coverage of the Asian financial crisis. Her coverage while at FT of the biggest Fortune 500 companies based in the South (Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, FedEx) earned her a spot on TJFR's "Top 30 business journalists under 30 list"[5] three years in a row (2000–2002). The FT also nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize[1] in 2000 for her series of articles on immigrant labor in the South. [edit] Publications Liu is also a book author and personal finance expert. She published the financial and lifestyle guide, Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond (Prentice Hall, May 2006), which was turned into a month-long weekly series on CNBC Asia called The Business of Life.[6] Her book led her to writing a bi-weekly personal finance column in The South China Morning Post.