FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS NETWORK SIGN MARKET STRATEGIST STEVE CORTES AS CONTRIBUTOR

FOX News has signed market strategist and former CNBC commentator Steve Cortes as a contributor. Cortes will provide market and political analysis on FOX Business Network (FBN) and FOX News Channel (FNC). Since 2007, Cortes has appeared daily on CNBC’s Fast Money and provided commentary on the mid-day program Fast Money Halftime Report.

Cortes is a 20-year veteran of Wall Street, providing real-time market research to institutional clients including banks, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds. In 2016, Cortes was named to then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Hispanic Advisory Council and currently serves as an informal advisor to the president.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Cortes is the author of the 2011 book: “Against the Heard: 6 Contrarian Investment Strategies You Should Follow.”

FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York—the business capital of the world—FBN launched in October 2007 and is available in more than 80 million homes in major markets across the United States. FBN finished the fourth quarter of 2016 as the number one business network, topping CNBC in total day viewers. Owned by 21st Century Fox, the network has bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and London.