Biografie

Was a candidate on Season 4 of The Apprentice (2004), finishing 2nd.

Was an associate producer and general assignment reporter for CNBC in New York from 2006 to 2009. She was a financial reporter and business and economics correspondent for CBS News in New York from 2010 to 2013. While with CBS News, she was a co-anchor on Saturday Early Show (1997) and CBS This Morning: Saturday (2012). Has been the the chief business and economics correspondent at ABC News since 2013.

Graduated from the University of Chicago, in Chicago Illinois, with a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Law, Letters & Society in 2003. Additionally, she studied international business and economics at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the Université Paris-Dauphine, in Paris, France.

Known to her friends as "Becky", she was one of Teen People's "20 Teens Who Will Change the World" in February 2000.

Was a trader at Citigroup's foreign exchange desk in London in the summer of 2003. She was an investment banking analyst at Banc of America Securities in Chicago from 2003 to 2005. She left investment banking to become a financial journalist for the newspapers Crain's Chicago Business and Business 2.0 in 2006.