MAKING SENSE OF UNCERTAIN FINANCIAL WORLD

FOX BUSINESS ANCHOR COMES PREPARED FROM THE FLOOR OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE

By Danielle Friedman

Like most morning news anchors, Alexis Glick’s day begins hours before sunrise, while most of us are still tucked warmly in our beds. She rises at 4 a.m., then makes the short trip from her Gramercy apartment to the studio of FOX Business Network, where she co-hosts its live weekday morning show, Money for Breakfast.

Minutes after she walks through the studio doors, the stunning, vivacious brunette begins her daily reading marathon, charging through a packet a hundred pages thick to prepare for the upcoming show.

At 7 a.m. it’s go-time.

“You have to be on your toes,” she said, “because you never know what to expect.”
When the cameras roll, Glick is charismatic, skillfully discussing the day’s financial news and interviewing key players in the business world.

Of course, she brings her own hard-won financial expertise to the role as well.
Before her career in television, Glick was the first and youngest woman to run trading operations for a major investment bank, Morgan Stanley, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

In 2007, after honing her on-air chops on CNBC and The Today Show, she was hired by Rupert Murdoch to help launch the FOX Business Network.

Reflecting on the past two years, Glick said her most challenging and rewarding interview came last summer, with then-presidential nominee Barack Obama. The stakes were high, along with the nerves.

“I knew going in that I needed to be very, very prepared,” she said.

Glick also wanted to find a way to distinguish their interview in the midst of nonstop campaign coverage. At the end of their talk, Glick took a leap: “Next time we sit down,” she told the nominee, “You know, I was a basketball player, and I want to play basketball!”

The future president broke out into a grin and asked, “You got game?” She assured him that she did, and they vowed to go head-to-head on the court.

Glick does have game. She was named to New York’s All-City basketball team while attending high school at Dalton. In those days, she commuted back and forth from Stuyvesant Town, where she grew up, before moving farther Uptown to Columbia for college.

Today, Glick, husband Oren Glick, a fashion photographer and entrepreneur, and their three young sons live just a short walk from her childhood apartment.

Looking ahead at the country’s uncertain financial future, Glick can only echo other financial experts for the time being.

“Solutions are not going to happen overnight,” Glick said.

She will continue to guide viewers as Obama’s administration forges ahead with their economic plan.

Speaking of the president, what about that basketball game?

“I’m waiting,” she said, laughing. “He still hasn’t taken me up on it.”

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