KAREN TSO
Anchor, CNBC Asia Pacific


Karen Tso anchors "Squawk Australia," a concise one-hour show with the mission of delivering Australian business news to the world, and global business to Australia. Australia is the first major market to open and sets the agenda and tone of market movement for the rest of Asia. Kicking off the programming day, Squawk Australia will offer live analysis of the Wall Street close and gear up for the opening bell on the ASX (Sydney) and the TSE (Tokyo).

With over 10 years of experience, Karen Tso joins CNBC from the Nine Network where she presented and reported business and finance stories for National Nine News, and Business Sunday. Karen was also the Today Show's personal finance contributor and presents a weekly segment on the program.

Prior to joining Nine, Karen presented a nightly finance spot on the ABC's flagship news and current affairs program Lateline. She also took the lead in reporting stock market movements and breaking business news for ABC's Midday News and Business, broadcast nationally, as well as the ABC's Asia Pacific service, ASPAC. In 2002 Karen worked as a business reporter on ABC's Business Breakfast, and was also the finance commentator for Sally Loane Talkback on ABC Local Radio for four years.