Christine Romans is one busy lady! She co-anchors "Early Start" with John Berman weekdays at 4am ET, she is CNN's chief business correspondent and the host of "Your Money," CNN's Saturday business program airing at 9:30am ET.
Here, Christine shares 10 things you probably don't know about her:
1. I have been getting up before 3 am for five years
2. I feel like I have had jetlag for five years
3. My first job in business journalism was covering pork belly and hog futures
4. My first newspaper job was covering crime
5. I can't sleep on a plane
6. I avoid clichés like the plague
7. Je parle Francais
8. I have covered 4 presidential elections at CNN
9. I learned how to speed read in sixth grade
10. Olivia Munn’s character in The Newsroom is based on me
See Christine's journey to discover her family history at CNN.com/Roots
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Foot traffic for retailers over the holidays is now HALF what it was just three years ago. That is according to ShopperTrack which monitors mall visits across the country.
Some experts think many of those shoppers will never come back to a mall again.