Background
She is a prominent Filipina, and was born in Washington, District of Columbia.
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Claire Leka
Edit ProfileTelevision News Anchor & Correspondent
Education
Claire received a Master"s Degree in Journalism from The American University (AU)
Claire received a Bachelor"s Degree in Communication from The American University (AU).
Career
Foreign a long part of her career, she worked for Cable News Network as a correspondent and anchor as well as for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, National Broadcasting Company News, Columbia Broadcasting System News and WABC-television Claire has also been a Finance correspondent on Australian breakfast show Sunrise. Leka was on the frontlines covering the current financial crisis for Columbia Broadcasting System. She reported live from the New York Stock Exchange on the August 2007 fall of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial which sparked the mortgage meltdown and the stock market crash of 2008. She reported extensively on the automobile, housing and cr crisis as well as the collapse of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, American International Group, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Claire also provided live analysis of the United States. government"s efforts to rescue the American economy, the bank crisis and the intricacies of the derivative markets.
Leka served as a Washington, District of Columbia correspondent covering Congress and the White House for Columbia Broadcasting System during the summer of 2007. Prior to working with Columbia Broadcasting System, Claire was a Cable News Network correspondent based at the New York Stock Exchange from 2000 to 2005.
In July 2000, she helped to launch the Cable News Network MarketSource service from the New York Stock Exchange which served Cable News Network"s more than 700 affiliates worldwide. She produced, wrote and reported daily live stock market updates for member stations including: WHDH-Boston, WSVN-Miami, WFLD-Chicago, KGO-San Francisco and KABC-Los Los Angeles
Leka reported from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
She also covered the wide ranging economic aftermath of 9/11 and its impact on lower Manhattan and the financial world for the next couple of years. Claire received a Master"s Degree in Journalism from The American University (AU) Claire"s first job was as a television reporter at WHAG-television in Hagerstown, Maryland.
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