If you spend your entire day like we do, keeping one eye on a sea of computer screens awash in green and red numbers and charts, and the other on a TV tuned to CNBC (and occasionally Bloomberg and even more occasionally Fox Business), you come to truly appreciate the business networks' beautiful -- and incredibly smart and knowledgeable -- women anchors. Here are our 12 favorites:


Maria Bartiromo
Bartiromo is one of the original female business news anchors. As a result of he rise to prominence she earned the nickname "Money Honey." She hosts "Closing Bell" on CNBC every day, which airs from 3 to 5 p.m., though she'll frequently pop on at other times with high-profile interviews. Bartiromo allegedly had an affair with Todd Thomson, the former head of Citigroup's Wealth Management division. On one trip home from China, Thompson ran into Bartiromo and made the other Citigroup employees fly home commercial while he took the company's private jet with Bartiromo. Allegedly.  Keep Reading »

We know, you saw that guy limping around the track on those crutches at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and you said to yourself, if I was at the track or at an OTB, I'd put all my money on Mine That Bird. In fact, only one half of one percent of all money bet on the race was placed on the winner. Even more incredible only 23 people picked the superfecta -- in other words, the exact order of the top four horses. A $1 bet yielded some $278,503. Check out this interview CNBC conducted with the only such winner to step forward into the public eye, Bowen Ross Wallace. We love what he plans to do with his winnings.

Speaking of chicken wings, we missed this report last night on the Colbert Report about the sudden dip in chicken wings. Why is there a shortage? Richard Lob, from the National Chicken Council, explains that chickens only have, well, two wings, and in a report that just aired on CNBC, chicken wing popularity is at an all-time high and the nation's largest chicken wing manufacturer recently filed for bankruptcy. (Prices, by the way, are way up, so watch out.) About 38 million pounds of wings will be sold this year for the Super Bowl. Buffalo Wild Wings alone sold more than half a million pounds last year (that's about 3.9 million individual wings), with higher sales expected this weekend. Have no fear, though: As Colbert learned, the country's chicken wing manufactures have actually dipped into a special strategic reserve ahead of the Super Bowl. No word if the dip is honey glazed or barbecue sauce. Sorry had to do it.