Fast Money (CNBC)
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Fast Money is an American
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 financial
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 stock trading
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 talk show
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 that began airing on the CNBC
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 cable
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/satellite
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 TV channel on 2006-06-21. Since October 10, 2007, it has broadcast every weeknight at 5pm ET
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, one hour after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange
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The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...

, until mid-2011 when it was moved to just four nights per week, Monday through Thursday, to make room for special option and currency trading shows on Friday evenings. The show originates from the NASDAQ MarketSite
NASDAQ MarketSite
NASDAQ MarketSite is the physical presence of the NASDAQ stock market. Located in Times Square in New York City, it occupies the North West corner of the bottom of the Condé Nast Building, located at 4 Times Square...

 in New York City
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.

Program format

Melissa Lee
Melissa Lee (journalist)
Melissa Lee is a Chinese American reporter and news anchor for CNBC. Since January 2009 she has occasionally hosted Closing Bell when Maria Bartiromo is unavailable...

 anchors a fast-paced discussion among four professional Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...

 traders. The group discusses various investment strategies, including technical analysis
Technical analysis
In finance, technical analysis is security analysis discipline for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis incorporate technical analysis, which being an aspect of active management stands...

, and debate the merits of each other's arguments for or against a particular stock or sector. The show covers topics such as options trading
Option (finance)
In finance, an option is a derivative financial instrument that specifies a contract between two parties for a future transaction on an asset at a reference price. The buyer of the option gains the right, but not the obligation, to engage in that transaction, while the seller incurs the...

, commodities, and exchange-traded fund
Exchange-traded fund
An exchange-traded fund is an investment fund traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks. An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities, or bonds, and trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day. Most ETFs track an index, such as the S&P 500 or MSCI EAFE...

s.

Most episodes feature regularly appearing traders: Pete Najarian, Guy Adami
Guy Adami
Guy Adami is a TV personality, author, financial analyst, & a professional investor. He is one of the original "Fast Money Five" on the show Fast Money . In 2008 he joined optionMONSTER with Pete Najarian and Jon Najarian as the lead analyst for equities research. He also came on board as managing...

, Karen Finerman
Karen Finerman
Karen Finerman is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and television personality. Co-founder of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, Inc., she is also President of the firm. She is a board member of the Michael J...

, Tim Seymour
Tim Seymour
Tim Seymour is founder and managing partner of Triogem Asset Management, a hedge fund focused on long short emerging markets equity and founder of EmergingMoney.com, a media site dedicated to hihglighting investment trends, ideas and oportunities for EM investing. Tim has been a long time talking...

, and Joe Terranova
Joe Terranova
Joe Terranova is a Capital Markets executive, investor and trader. In addition, he is financial news television personality....

.

History

The success of Mad Money
Mad Money
Mad Money is an American finance television program hosted by Jim Cramer that began airing on CNBC on March 14, 2005. Its main focus is investment and speculation, particularly in publicly traded stocks...

prompted CNBC to look to replicate that success with another show. Fast Money was created by Dylan Ratigan
Dylan Ratigan
Dylan Jason Ratigan is an American television host primarily covering financial markets, the global economy, and politics. He is host of The Dylan Ratigan Show which airs weekday afternoons on MSNBC. He is also a frequent contributor on The Huffington Post.- Early life :Ratigan was born in the...

 and Susan Krakower, Vice President of Strategic Programming and Development, as a spin off
Spin-off (media)
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 from a weekly segment that first aired in the May 2006 episodes of On the Money
On the Money
CNBC's On the Money, hosted by Carmen Wong Ulrich, is a television program that focuses primarily on personal finance, a programming departure from CNBC's "investor focused" weekday programming....

. The show originally aired from CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Englewood Cliffs is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 5,281. The borough houses the world headquarters of CNBC and the American headquarters of Unilever, and is home to both Ferrari and Maserati North America.Englewood Cliffs...

, with Ratigan as host, and a regular panel of Jeff Macke, Guy Adami, Tim Strazzini, and Eric Bolling and added Brian Kelly as a man with an Irish name who seems anything but Irish. By January 8, 2007, it became a weekday show with its studio at the NASDAQ MarketSite
NASDAQ MarketSite
NASDAQ MarketSite is the physical presence of the NASDAQ stock market. Located in Times Square in New York City, it occupies the North West corner of the bottom of the Condé Nast Building, located at 4 Times Square...

.

On Fridays, beginning with March 5, 2010, the show is truncated to just 30 minutes as Options Action (also hosted by Melissa Lee) is aired in the 5:30 ET timeslot. Both Fast Money and Options Action are broadcast from the NASDAQ MarketSite.

In mid-2011, Fast Money was removed from the Friday night line-up altogether to make room for "Currency in Motion" which airs in the 5:30 ET time slot, while "Options Action" is moved forward to 5:00 ET.

Panelist changes

Strazzini was replaced by Najarian on May 18, 2007. Bolling was replaced by Finerman on September 4, 2007. Seymour, who had appeared on the show as a substitute panelist, was made a regular in October 2008. After published rumors of conflict with Fast Money co-creator Susan Krakower, Ratigan left the network on March 27, 2009 when his CNBC contract expired. Ratigan was replaced by Lee, who sometimes filled in for Ratigan. Macke left CNBC on June 15, 2009

Substitute hosts and panelists

Substitute hosts include Melissa Francis, Becky Quick, and Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett
Erin Isabelle Burnett is the anchor of CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront. She was the co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk on the Street program and the host of CNBC's Street Signs program...

. Also, when a regular panelist is not available, substitute panelists are used in his place. Fill-ins include Pete's brother, Jon Najarian of OptionMONSTER.com, Tim Seymour
Tim Seymour
Tim Seymour is founder and managing partner of Triogem Asset Management, a hedge fund focused on long short emerging markets equity and founder of EmergingMoney.com, a media site dedicated to hihglighting investment trends, ideas and oportunities for EM investing. Tim has been a long time talking...

, founder of Seygem Asset Management, Carter Worth, chief market technician at Oppenheimer & Co., Joe Terranova, Chief Alternatives Strategist at Phoenix Investment Partners, Quint Tatro, Tatro Capital, Zachary Karabell, President of River Twice Research, Joe Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at thinkorswim and Jared A. Levy, senior derivatives specialist at PEAK6 Investments.

Current

  • Melissa Lee
    Melissa Lee (journalist)
    Melissa Lee is a Chinese American reporter and news anchor for CNBC. Since January 2009 she has occasionally hosted Closing Bell when Maria Bartiromo is unavailable...

     ("The Emissary"; became permanent host in April 2009)
  • Scott Wapner (Became permanent host of Fast Money Halftime Report in July 2011)
  • Becky Quick ("The Contessa")+
  • Melissa Francis ("The Empress")+
  • Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
    Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
    Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is an American business news General Assignment Reporter for CNBC television. She formerly co-hosted the Worldwide Exchange program airing from 4-6am ET . Caruso-Cabrera announced her departure from the show on 2007-10-19...

     ("La Princesa")+
  • Rick Santelli
    Rick Santelli
    Rick Santelli is an American on-air editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for...

     ("The Big SUR")+
  • Simon Hobbs ("Simon Bar Sinister
    Simon Bar Sinister
    Dr. Simon Bar Sinister was the main antagonist in the Underdog cartoon show. Simon is the wickedest man in the world, and it was his ambition to rule the world, but each time, Underdog defeated him.-Character:...

    ")+
  • Bob Pisani
    Bob Pisani
    Robert Pisani has been a news correspondent for financial news network CNBC since 1990. Pisani largely covered the real estate industry and corporate management until 1997. Since then he has reported live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, surrounded by the flurry of floor traders doing...


Former

  • Dylan Ratigan
    Dylan Ratigan
    Dylan Jason Ratigan is an American television host primarily covering financial markets, the global economy, and politics. He is host of The Dylan Ratigan Show which airs weekday afternoons on MSNBC. He is also a frequent contributor on The Huffington Post.- Early life :Ratigan was born in the...

     ("The Commissioner"; 2006–2009)
  • Erin Burnett
    Erin Burnett
    Erin Isabelle Burnett is the anchor of CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront. She was the co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk on the Street program and the host of CNBC's Street Signs program...

     ("The Heiress")+
  • Matt Nesto ("The House")+


Current

  • Guy Adami
    Guy Adami
    Guy Adami is a TV personality, author, financial analyst, & a professional investor. He is one of the original "Fast Money Five" on the show Fast Money . In 2008 he joined optionMONSTER with Pete Najarian and Jon Najarian as the lead analyst for equities research. He also came on board as managing...

     ("The Negotiator")
  • Karen Finerman
    Karen Finerman
    Karen Finerman is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and television personality. Co-founder of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, Inc., she is also President of the firm. She is a board member of the Michael J...

     ("The Chairwoman"; 2007–present)
  • Pete Najarian ("The Pit Boss"; 2007–present)
  • Joe Terranova
    Joe Terranova
    Joe Terranova is a Capital Markets executive, investor and trader. In addition, he is financial news television personality....

     ("The Liquidator"; 2008–present)+
  • Tim Seymour
    Tim Seymour
    Tim Seymour is founder and managing partner of Triogem Asset Management, a hedge fund focused on long short emerging markets equity and founder of EmergingMoney.com, a media site dedicated to hihglighting investment trends, ideas and oportunities for EM investing. Tim has been a long time talking...

     ("The Ambassador"; 2007–present)+
  • Jon Najarian ("The Monster" "Dr. Evil"; 2007–present)+
  • Quint Tatro ("The Kentucky Kid"; 2008–present)+
  • Zachary Karabell ("The Academic"; 2008–present)+
  • Carter Worth
    Carter Worth
    Carter Braxton Worth is an American financial analyst and stock market strategist. He is the chief market technician and a managing director at Oppenheimer & Co....

     ("Charter Worth"; 2007–present)+
  • Dennis Gartman (2008–present)+
  • Joe "JJ" Kinahan (2008–present)+
  • Jared A Levy ("The Strategist"; 2009–present)+
  • Steve Cortes ("El Capitan"; 2009–present)+
  • Brian Kelly (2009–present)+
  • Steve Grasso ("The Governor"; 2009–present)+
  • Dan Nathan (2011-present)+

+ substitute

Former

  • Eric Bolling
    Eric Bolling
    Eric Bolling is an American television personality who specializes in financial news and political commentary. He has occupied numerous roles as a commentator on financial issues for television. Bolling was involved in developing CNBC's Fast Money...

     ("The Admiral"; 2006–2007), now with the Fox Business Network
    Fox Business Network
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  • Stacey Briere-Gilbert ("The Hammer"; 2007), still a show contributor
  • Jeff Macke ("The Lone Wolf"; 2006–2009)
  • Tim Strazzini ("The Risk Doctor"; 2006–2007)

Segments

The show has several distinct segments, including (but not limited to):
  • Page Two: An in-depth discussion of some of the main business related stories of the day.
  • Chart of the Day: This segment highlights a chart that corresponds to the day's specific stock.
  • Trade Tomorrow: Lee and her panel zero in on the next day's/week's top three trades than can make you money.
  • The Takedown: When one panelist disagrees with the other over a certain issue or comment.
  • Trade School: If a member of the panel uses Wall Street jargon, Lee will decipher it for viewers (with an accompanying definition).
  • Word On The Street: "Best money making chatter behind the scenes"; involves in depth discussion on the various stocks that have made recent news.
  • Street Fight: CNBC contributor, Herb Greenberg
    Herb Greenberg
    Herb Greenberg is an American journalist, was a columnist and blogger for MarketWatch.com and a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal....

    , takes on the 4 panelists and challenges one of the stock picks each panelist has recommended, Ratigan (and now Melissa Lee) picks a winner after each "fight" by siding with the views of the panelist or Herb Greenberg.
  • Chartology: This segment looks at a chart that corresponds to a specific index, along with technical analysis, usually from Fast Money panelist Carter Worth.
  • Breaking News: Late-breaking business headlines (seen on live broadcast only).
  • Pops & Drops: Lee and her panelists review stocks that have the big gains (pops) and drops during the day (or week).
  • Fast Fire: Panelists are held accountable for their past bad picks and are confronted on-air. This segment is seen on Fridays.
  • Stocks on Sale: Panelists asked Ratigan (the original host) whether or not a stock that is mentioned is on sale (very similar to the Lightning Round on Mad Money). This segment is no longer current.
  • Sector Trade: A segment in which the traders pull the curtain on a hot stock, and tells viewers how to play it.
  • Happy 52-Week High: Seen before and after the commercial break, this segment was about a stock that has just hit a new 52-week high on that day, along with a trivia question and facts about that particular stock. The answer to the question was revealed after the commercial break. This segment was discontinued in January 2008 and replaced by the Trader Radar (see below).
  • Trader Radar: A successor to the Happy 52-Week High segment (and is similar to the one mentioned above), this segment is about a stock that "lit up Wall Street radar screens everywhere" on that day. The answer to the question is revealed after the commercial break.
  • Take Your Position: The panelists give their specific thoughts related to an event, like a takeover or upcoming earnings.
  • Face 2 Face: A viewer, via Webcam
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    , asks a question about a specific stock to Lee and her panel.
  • Grade the Trade: In this Friday segment (discontinued since October 2007), which involved college students who joined the show via Webcam, they had 30 seconds to answer a question asked by Ratigan. The panelists then graded his/her trade.
  • Trade Update: One of the panelists will give an update to a previous trade they had recommended.
  • Fast Money World: Fast Money panelist Tim Seymour reveals some international stock trades.
  • Fast Message: Lee reads viewer Emails
  • Surprise Friday Guest: In this segment seen each Friday, a surprise guest joins the panel.
  • Fast & Furious: A Pardon the Interruption
    Pardon the Interruption
    Pardon the Interruption is a sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels, TSN, ESPN America, XM, and Sirius satellite radio services, and as a downloadable podcast. It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top stories...

    -style rundown of events happening the next day. The idea for the segment was pitched by former CNBC intern Jason Parks in May 2008.
  • Final Trade: The final segment of the show in which Lee and her panel reveal what your first move should be the next morning.

Programming and ratings

Fast Money's first 13 episodes (including one live audience broadcast) aired during the summer of 2006 in the Wednesday 8pm ET timeslot. Ratings were relatively low, with the program averaging a bit over 110,000 viewers per week. During the week of 2006-09-18, the program tried a new timeslot at 5pm ET, the plush timeslot with highly rated Closing Bell
Closing Bell
Closing Bell can refer to two CNBC programs, the original Closing Bell on CNBC , and European Closing Bell on CNBC Europe.-About the show:...

serving as the lead-out (bumping Kudlow & Company
Kudlow & Company
The Kudlow Report is a news television program about business and politics hosted by Lawrence Kudlow, that airs on the CNBC television channel at 7pm ET. The show began airing on January 26, 2009. It is a successor to Kudlow & Company, which aired from 2005 until October 2008...

to 8pm for the week). Here the show flourished, nearly doubling its viewership average to 211,000 viewers (on-par with what K&C normally gets). The 5pm ET timeslot, while successful, bumped Kudlow & Company to 8pm. This brought the show's ratings down substantially compared to where they were before the temporary move. After its successful 5pm test run during the week of 2006-09-18, CNBC retried the program again at 8pm the week after. CNBC had hoped it may have gained some traction after the increased viewership from the week prior. The show did not. Ratings were roughly on-par with the summer 2006 airings.

Production

Fast Money is recorded at the Times Square
Times Square
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 New York, New York, street-level studios of the NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...

 by CNBC
CNBC
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, a national cable television
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 network
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 previously owned by NBC Universal
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 and GE
Gê are the people who spoke Ge languages of the northern South American Caribbean coast and Brazil. In Brazil the Gê were found in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Piaui, Mato Grosso, Goias, Tocantins, Maranhão, and as far south as Paraguay....

, now majority owned by Comcast
Comcast
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 as of January 28, 2011 (Comcast Corporation owns a controlling 51% interest in NBCUniversal, with GE holding a 49% stake).

The show is recorded weekdays for air at 5 p.m. (ET). As the show is being ingested digitally in the Thomson Grass Valley MAN, the show is assembled by the editor
Editing
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 and producer
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 to be made into the first-run air product viewers watch Monday through Thursday at 5 p.m. (ET).

As of January 2009, among the many contributors are producer Jason Farkas, and tape producers Heather Wilcox and Boaz Halaban, responsible for creating and delivering the final show to air, after creating special Avid
AVID
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 Adrenaline edited elements by CNBC Staff Avid Editors such as Conrad deVroeg, Gary Princz, Diana Constantino, and Dave Lettieri, and constructing the show with CNBC Staff Grass Valley
Grass Valley (company)
Grass Valley, previously known as Grass Valley Group, is a privately held company based in California, USA. Grass Valley produces technology for the video and broadcast industry. On January 29, 2009, Thomson announced its intention to sell the Grass Valley business unit...

 NewsEdit Editors Rich Uliasz, Cosimo Camporeale, Carolyn Shivey, Vanessa DiPietro, Keri Conjura, Diana Acosta, and Kelly Frisco.

Dow drops 416

On 2007-02-27, a special edition of Fast Money, which covered that day's 416-point plunge on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average , also called the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow...

, aired. It was rebroadcast at 1am ET, pre-empting that night's scheduled airing of The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch was a talk show on CNBC hosted by Donny Deutsch. The show offered success stories that outlined a "roadmap to the American Dream." Every weeknight at 10pm, Donny Deutsch, the CEO of advertising and media business Deutsch Inc., introduced the audience to successful...

.

Wall Street's Worst Week since September 2002

On 2007-03-02, another special edition of Fast Money aired. This time, it was a look back at Wall Street's worst week in nearly 4½ years. Erin Burnett was the guest moderator of that episode (Dylan Ratigan was on assignment in Washington, DC when it aired).

Fast Money: Live from Silicon Valley

On 2007-10-19, Fast Money was broadcast live from the Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, USA. The Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting the stories and artifacts of the information age, and exploring the computing revolution and its impact on our lives.-History:The museum's origins...

 in Mountain View, CA. This special edition also covered that day's 367-point plunge on the Dow, which coincidentally, occurred 20 years to the day it lost 508 points, or 22.6% of its value on Black Monday
Black Monday (1987)
In finance, Black Monday refers to Monday October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short time. The crash began in Hong Kong and spread west to Europe, hitting the United States after other markets had already declined by a significant margin...

.

Fast Money 1st Anniversary

The Fast Money 1st Anniversary special was broadcast on 2008-01-15. This special edition showed memorable clips from its first year on the air from the NASDAQ (where Fast Money re-debuted on 2007-01-08), and also covered that day's 277-point plunge on the Dow. Michael Eisner
Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.-Early life:...

, former Disney
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

 CEO and current host of his own CNBC show, Conversations with Michael Eisner
Conversations with Michael Eisner
Conversations with Michael Eisner is a one hour talk show that runs once a month on CNBC. The show is hosted by former Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner....

, made a special guest appearance on this program.

Fast Money: Miami Advice

On 2008-02-29, Fast Money was broadcast live from Coral Gables, FL (a suburb of Miami
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

). This special edition also covered that day's 315-point plunge on the Dow. Jack Welch
Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. is an American chemical engineer, business executive, and author. He was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001...

, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

 (the parent company of CNBC) and retiring NBA star Alonzo Mourning
Alonzo Mourning
Alonzo Harding Mourning, Jr. is a former American professional basketball player, who played most of his 15-year NBA career for the Miami Heat....

 made special guest appearances on this program, which was also the first Fast Money to be filmed outdoors.

Fast Money: Trading Chicago Hope

The third Fast Money road show was broadcast live from the Cadillac Palace Theatre
Cadillac Palace Theatre
The Cadillac Palace Theatre is operated by Broadway In Chicago, a Nederlander Presentation. It is located at 151 West Randolph Street in the Chicago Loop area downtown.-History:...

 in Chicago on 2008-05-16. Making special guest appearances in this edition were CME
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is an American financial and commodity derivative exchange based in Chicago. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board. Originally, the exchange was a non-profit organization...

 Chairman Terry Duffy, personal finace guru Suze Orman
Suze Orman
Susan "Suze" Lynn Orman is an American financial advisor, author, motivational speaker, and television host.Orman was born in Chicago and received her B.A. in social work. She worked as a waitress in Berkeley, California before becoming a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch...

 (host of CNBC's The Suze Orman Show) and Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Enterprises
Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is a privately held global media and lifestyle company founded by Hugh Marston Hefner to manage the Playboy magazine empire. Its programming and content are available worldwide on television networks, Websites, mobile platforms and radio...

 CEO Christie Hefner.

Fast Money Now

These special half-hour editions of Fast Money were aired at 1pm ET during the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 over two weeks, from 2008-08-11 to 2008-08-22. Due to CNBC's Olympics coverage, Fast Money Now (1pm ET) and Mad Money at the Half (1:30pm ET) were shown in place of the second hour of Power Lunch
Power Lunch
Power Lunch is a television business news program on CNBC, airing between 1:00pm and 2:00pm Eastern Time. It is presented by Tyler Mathisen, Sue Herera, and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Simon Hobbs will fill in on occasion. Bill Griffeth anchored the program alone from 1996 to 2002...

, while the hour-long editions of Fast Money (seen on a same-day tape delay) aired at 9pm ET.

Fast Money: Future of Wall Street

This special edition of Fast Money, which was broadcast from New York 2008-09-19 in front of a live audience, featured a guest appearance from activist investor Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn is an American business magnate and investor.-Biography:Icahn was raised in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, where he attended Far Rockaway High School. His father was a cantor, his mother was a schoolteacher...

. This show was filmed in the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. JALC's performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at West 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly adjacent to Columbus Circle. Frederick P....

-- Allen Room. This show also covered that day's 369-point gain on the Dow.

Fast Money: Washington - The Way Forward

This edition of the Fast Money road show was broadcast live from the DAR Constitution Hall
DAR Constitution Hall
DAR Constitution Hall is a concert hall in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to house its annual convention when membership delegations outgrew Memorial Continental Hall. Later, the two buildings were connected by a third structure housing the DAR...

 in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 on 2008-11-07. Guests included Keith Hennessey, assistant to the President for economic policy and Richard Brown, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000 per depositor per bank. , the FDIC insures deposits at...

 chief economist. The panel included five members with Tim Seymour joining the regular crew.

Fast Money MBA Challenge

Students from the top business schools across America competed in the Fast Money MBA Challenge, which was also hosted by Dylan Ratigan. The shows were recorded at CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Englewood Cliffs is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 5,281. The borough houses the world headquarters of CNBC and the American headquarters of Unilever, and is home to both Ferrari and Maserati North America.Englewood Cliffs...

 on 2007-07-14 and 2007-07-15. Fast Money MBA Challenge aired on 2007-08-01, 2007-08-08, 2007-08-15, and 2007-08-22, and were repeated on the following Sunday at 9PM and 12AM Eastern Time from 2007-08-05 through 2007-08-26.

Participating schools:
  • UCLA Anderson School of Management
  • Columbia Business School
    Columbia Business School
    Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...

  • MIT Sloan School of Management
    MIT Sloan School of Management
    The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

  • Yale School of Management
    Yale School of Management
    The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...

  • New York University Stern School of Business
    New York University Stern School of Business
    The Leonard N. Stern School of Business is New York University's business school. It was established in 1900 as the NYU School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. In 1988 it was named after Leonard N. Stern, an alumnus and benefactor of the school...

  • Tuck School of Business
    Tuck School of Business
    The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States...

    , Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

  • McCombs School of Business
    McCombs School of Business
    The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...

    , University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin
    The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

  • The University of Chicago Booth School of Business


The championship final of the Fast Money MBA Challenge was broadcast live from outside the NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...

 Marketsite in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 on 2007-08-22. In that championship final, Yale faced Texas for the $200,000 prize. After six weeks, the $200,000 prize was won by Yale.

Worldwide simulcast

Currently, Fast Money is not seen on CNBC Europe
CNBC Europe
CNBC Europe is a business and financial news television channel, the pan-European sister station of CNBC. The network is owned and operated by NBC Universal and headquartered in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones...

 as that channel instead airs broadcasts of CNBC documentaries in that timeslot. However, as of 2007-10-10, this program is seen on CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....

 Tuesdays to Saturdays 5AM SIN/HK/TWN Time LIVE during the Daylight Saving Time
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time —also summer time in several countries including in British English and European official terminology —is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less...

 period in the US until 2007-11-02. Without DST, CNBC Asia only broadcasts "LIVE" Friday (US time) edition of Fast Money on Saturdays morning at 6am SIN/HK/TWN time, and rerun version of Mondays to Wednesdays US time editions are aired from Tuesdays to Thursdays at 12pm SIN/HK/TWN time.

Fast Money Halftime Report

Fast Money Halftime Report is an American financial stock trading talk show that airs from noon-1 ET on CNBC. This show, which follows the same format as the 5pm show, debuted July 7, 2010. It spun off from a segment on Power Lunch
Power Lunch
Power Lunch is a television business news program on CNBC, airing between 1:00pm and 2:00pm Eastern Time. It is presented by Tyler Mathisen, Sue Herera, and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Simon Hobbs will fill in on occasion. Bill Griffeth anchored the program alone from 1996 to 2002...

, which itself moved to 1 ET from noon ET on July 7, 2010 and had its runtime cut in half from 2 hours to 1 hour. Unlike Fast Money, this halftime market show is hosted by Scott Wapner, and is broadcast live from CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Originally aired as a half-hour show, the Fast Money Halftime Report doubled its runtime from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on October 17, 2011 and also moved up to the noon ET timeslot. The newly-expanded hour-long show replaced 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...

, which was cancelled October 14, 2011 as a result of very low ratings.

See also

  • Fox Business Happy Hour
    Fox Business Happy Hour
    Fox Business Happy Hour is an American financial program aired on the Fox Business Network weekdays from 5-6pm Eastern Time and was hosted by Rebecca Diamond, Cody Willard and Eric Bolling.-About the program:...

    (a Fox Business Network
    Fox Business Network
    Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...

     program aired from 5-6 ET in the same timeslot)
  • Mad Money
    Mad Money
    Mad Money is an American finance television program hosted by Jim Cramer that began airing on CNBC on March 14, 2005. Its main focus is investment and speculation, particularly in publicly traded stocks...

    (a CNBC financial investing program, hosted by Jim Cramer, which follows a similar format)
  • On the Money
    On the Money
    CNBC's On the Money, hosted by Carmen Wong Ulrich, is a television program that focuses primarily on personal finance, a programming departure from CNBC's "investor focused" weekday programming....


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