Trivia

There is a song named after her entitled "Maria Bartiromo" by Joey Ramone of The Ramones. It is on his record "Don't Worry About Me".

Raised in Bay Ridge, an Italian working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn.

In 1995, became first journalist -- man or woman -- to report live on TV daily from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

In January 2007, she filed trademark applications to use the term "Money Honey" as a brand name for a line of children's products including toys, puzzles and coloring books.

Graduated from New York University where she majored in journalism and minored in economics.

Managing editor and current hostess of On the Money (1992), shown in syndication.

As a teenager, she checked coats at her parents' Italian restaurant, Rex Manor Catering Hall, in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. Her father was the chef.

Does not like to use credit cards.

Her husband, Jonathan Steinberg, is a publisher and the son of financier Saul Steinberg. Jonathan is the founder and CEO of WisdomTree Investments, a financial investment services company in Manhattan.

Was the Grand Marshal for the 2010 New York City Columbus Day Parade.

Inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame on June 14, 2011 in Chicago.

Is often referred to as "Money Honey" and "Econo Babe" by stock exchange traders because of her resemblance to Sophia Loren.

After graduation from Fontbonne Hall Academy, a local Catholic girls' school, she went to Long Island University before transferring to New York University.

Has received several awards including the Union League of Philadelphia's Lincoln Statue Award (2004) and the Coalition of Italian-American Association's Excellence in Broadcast Journalism Award (1997) and was nominated in 2002 for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her series on the widows of September 11.

Moving from CNBC to Fox Business Network [November 18, 2013].

Loves Oreo cookies.

Has a brother and a sister.

When she and her siblings were young, their mother invested in Christmas clubs.

Got her first TV job in 1987, as an intern with CNN.

Youngest of Vincent and Josephine Bartiromo's three children.

Will be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2011.

CNN producer and assignment editor [1988-1993].

Joined CNBC in August, 1993.

Fox Business Network's global markets editor.

Maria and actor/director Scott Baio grew up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood (Bay Ridge), she admits that she had a crush on him.

Economist Thomas Sowell wrote "The most distinctive face on television: Financial analyst Maria Bartiromo. She would be a photographer's delight and a caricaturist's dream" in 2003.