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Terry Keenan

Terry Keenan joined FOX News Channel as anchor of "Cashin' In" and business correspondent. Prior to joining FNC, Keenan served as an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN Business News analyzing Wall Street and the markets. She served as anchor for "Moneyline Weekend Edition" with Terry Keenan and the first hour of CNNfn's "Street Sweep." She also appeared as a correspondent for "Moneyline." Keenan originally joined CNN Business News in 1986, serving in various capacities. She began as a producer for Moneyline before becoming an on-air correspondent. From 1995-98, Keenan left CNN and served as an anchor at CNBC. In 1998, she returned to CNN Business News.

  • Obamacare has to focus on optimism

    The health-care debate is over for now, and the economy shows a few nascent signs of a spring pick-up, but an uneasiness lingers over the land. Why so? I suspect what's bothering the majority of Americans who...  

    March 28, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Stox spike as Obama loses favor

    A funny thing happened this week in the land of statistics -- President Obama's disapproval rating bested his approval score for the first time in his presidency (46 percent approve, while 48 percent disapprove,...  

    March 21, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Happy returns

    It's just over a month until tax day -- April 15 -- typically one of the most dreaded days on the calendar for Americans. But that red-letter day is of diminishing significance to an increasing percentage of...  

    March 14, 2010 1:00 AM
  • Pandit's testimony is Oscar- worthy

    The national celebration of creative filmmaking, illusion and escape -- better known as the Oscars -- takes place tonight. But before the official awards ceremony kicks off, American taxpayers were treated to a best...  

    March 07, 2010 12:00 AM
  • ObamaCare bleeds NYers

    Here's one number that wasn't mentioned during last week's Presidential Health Care Summit -- the Democrats want to levy a new income tax to fund ObamaCare and the residents of New York and New Jersey will likely end up...  

    February 28, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Wal-Mart's economy is everybody's economy

    Mark Twain's famous quote, "Lies, damned lies and statistics" can also reflects the view of many Americans these days. They're not just fed up with Washington, but increasingly skeptical of the veracity of the economic...  

    February 21, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Hey, Mr. President, tax this!

    Dear President Obama: On this Presidents' Day weekend, the US economy, as you well know, is in dire need of a plan for revival. With 8.4 million jobs lost since the start of the Great Recession -- and world market...  

    February 14, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Crisis in Greece an epic tale for all

    It was a little less than two years ago, February 22, 2008, when Northern Rock, one of Britain's biggest mortgage lenders, had to be rescued by the UK government after a crisis that started with bad loans to subprime...  

    February 07, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Obama gets hawkish on $pending, to our peril

    It was the first good week of the new year for President Obama. On Wednesday, his Treasury Secretary survived a grueling grilling on Capital Hill, while the next day Ben Bernanke, his nominee for Fed Chairman, was...  

    January 31, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Bam's history lesson

    In the wake of the Democrats bruising de feat in Massachusetts last week, many pundits have encouraged President Obama to take a lesson from Bill Clinton's mid-term election meltdown in 1994. It's a good comparison...  

    January 24, 2010 12:00 AM
  • In Conan, we see our econ woes

    It's too early to know for sure, but it's a good bet that in Late Night Wars 2.0, Conan O'Brien will emerge the big winner. Although currently out of a job, Conan has lately been scaling the likeability index with...  

    January 17, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Treasury secretary could learn from Teamster Hoffa

    Memo to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner: If you want to survive another year in Washington, start channeling your inner Jimmy Hoffa. Yes, Hoffa -- James P. Hoffa, that is -- the current Teamsters boss and the one...  

    January 10, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Changes in 2010

    It wouldn't be the start of a new year without a few predictions for the months ahead. While it's always a tricky proposition, it's a fair bet that what happened last year is seldom to be repeated, particularly on Wall...  

    January 03, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Christmas may mark end of era

    In the next few weeks, winter- weary Americans will be treated to a host of conflicting news reports about the economy and the vigor of the holiday shopping season. Don't buy into the mixed messages. Overall,...  

    December 27, 2009 12:00 AM
  • No 'Time' for a jinx

    This week ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos quietly, almost stealthily, stepped into extended roles at the television network where they have toiled for years. In Washington, the Federal Reserve Chief wasn...  

    December 20, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Biz execs, at long last, fessing up their $ins

    Two financial sectors titans -- Goldman Sachs and General Electric -- fessed up to bad behavior recently, which raised many an eyebrow. Goldman belatedly announced that it would pay its top 30 executives bonuses...  

    December 13, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Both Tiger & Lloyd are tarnished by recent events

    What do Tiger Woods and Goldman Sachs have in common? A lot more than meets the eye. Indeed, the two fallen icons of 2009 might want to take a look at the similarity of their situations. So far both their efforts...  

    December 06, 2009 12:00 AM
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    It may be two minutes to midnight at the oasis

    It's a fair bet that few around the Thanksgiving dinner table talked much about Dubai last week, even as that Emirate quietly rocked world financial markets with the surprise prospect of the biggest government debt...  

    November 29, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Wall Street turkeys full of. . . stuffing

    It's Thanksgiving week and that means it's time to roast the biggest turkeys in business from the year just past -- and 2009 certainly had its share of bird-brained characters. * Tim Geithner: The cabinet member...  

    November 22, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Goldman Sachs' born-again image is laughable

    It turns out that giving back is hard to do -- especially, it seems, if you are Goldman Sachs. In a week during which Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein was roundly ridiculed for bragging that his firm was doing...  

    November 15, 2009 12:00 AM
  • What is behind Buffett's Burlington buy

    If anyone's reputation sur vived the financial meltdown of the past two years, it has been Warren Buffett's. So it's no surprise that this week when Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made its biggest investment ever --...  

    November 08, 2009 12:00 AM
  • We will pay for Fed's borrow short, lend long strategy

    You can call it Uncle Sam's big fat ARM. That's right -- the folks that brought the American taxpayer a debt clock that is ticking toward a November rendezvous with the $12 trillion mark are also financing that...  

    October 31, 2009 10:00 PM
  • Feinberg's cuts mean nothing

    P RESIDENT Obama is masterful when it comes to making sweeping declarations but, as we're all learning, it's the nagging details that often get in the way. And so it was this week as the President took to the East...  

    October 25, 2009 12:00 AM
  • 10 years after: Dow breaks through 10K mark again

    It was a moment for celebra tion, a time for the wearing-of-the-green by the cable network anchors and a chance to party like it was 1999. Well it was. . .sort of. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed the...  

    October 18, 2009 12:00 AM
  • President ought to defend $

    Isn't it ironic that during the very same week that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at making nice around the world, the American currency, the very symbol of US hegemony, found itself...  

    October 11, 2009 12:00 AM
  • To be or not to be for employment recovery

    NOTHING like a presidential trip to the world's happiest country to distract people in this country from the fact that something is indeed rotten when it comes to the state of the American job market. Yes, just...  

    October 04, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Palin: Regulation is the cause, not way out, of woes

    YOU gotta hand it to Sarah Palin -- the former half-term governor of the forty-ninth state knows how to make hay in a bad economy. Just over two months since her surprise resignation, Palin stepped out in public...  

    September 27, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Volcker, a super czar, is too often ignored by O

    FROM the car czar to the climate czar to the Great Lakes czar (yes, there is one), President Obama's efforts to populate his administration with officials who often require no Senate confirmation has drawn howls of...  

    September 20, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Feds use Madoff mystique in Apt. sale

    Call it the Bernie Madoff premium. In a Manhattan real estate market that is anything but upward bound, word had it this week that Madoff's 64th Street duplex was on the market for a rich $9.9 million. Never mind...  

    September 13, 2009 12:00 AM
  • Banks' bailout bingo

    Just in time for the one year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers implosion, taxpaying Americans are being treated to a series of giddy articles heralding the "profitable" returns that Uncle Sam is making on the hundreds...  

    September 06, 2009 12:00 AM