Alexis Christoforous is a New York-based Anchor and Reporter for Yahoo Finance. She is an award-winning network television and radio journalist, whose career has spanned on-air roles at CBS News and Bloomberg. At Yahoo Finance, Alexis is anchor of the live morning show, “The First Trade,” where she interviews market movers, business leaders and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. She also hosts the weekly podcast, “Yahoo Finance Presents.” Alexis has anchored Yahoo Finance’s live coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as well as their live coverage of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, and All Markets Summits in NYC and Washington, DC Prior to joining Yahoo Finance, Alexis was an Anchor and Correspondent for CBS News, where she appeared on “The CBS Evening News,” “CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood,” “CBS This Morning” and over 200 CBS affiliate stations across the country. Her business reports have also been heard nationally on the CBS Radio Network and its flagship New York station, NewsRadio 880. Alexis has also anchored the network television programs, “CBS Morning News” and “CBS Up-To-The-Minute,” as well as the local New York flagship station, WCBS-TV. She was also anchor and lead writer for the nationally syndicated program, “CBS MarketWatch Weekend.” Alexis began her business news career at Bloomberg Television and Radio where she helped launch Bloomberg Television. She also anchored the national PBS program “Bloomberg Morning News” and was Bloomberg's first correspondent to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. She has covered major business news events including, the internet bubble and burst, the Great Recession, and the 9/11 attacks. In addition to her business reporting, Alexis has also interviewed many top celebrities including Sara Jessica Parker, Matt Damon, Madonna, and Tony Bennett. Alexis is also very active in her community. She volunteers her time to the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund, helped to narrate the award-winning not-for-profit children’s book series, “Loukoumi”, and participated in a children’s celebrity cookbook with proceeds benefiting the St. Jude Children’s Hospital. She is also very active in her local Boy Scout and Girl Scout Troops.
A native New Yorker, Alexis is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and is Vice President of the school’s Alumni & Friends board. Alexis graduated cum laude from New York University with a BA in Broadcast Journalism. She has also served as an adjunct professor at NYU. She resides in Manhattan with her husband and their three children.