Squawk Box Europe
Steve Sedgwick
Steve Sedgwick co-anchors CNBC's flagship program "Squawk Box Europe" having spent nearly three decades in and around financial markets, first as a trader and then as a journalist.
Steve has attended high levels international events for CNBC for over a decade including key G7, G8 and G20 meetings, as well as the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia and the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he also routinely moderates key panels on a host of subjects. Steve also led our coverage of the COP21 climate change talks in 2015.
In 2014 Steve was on the ground for CNBC in Kiev, Ukraine during the Russian annexation of Crimea and interviewed key players, including the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine throughout the conflict.
Steve is also CNBC's OPEC reporter, covering major meetings and interviewing top OPEC oil ministers, non-OPEC ministers and heads of bodies such as the IEA and EIA.
Prior to joining CNBC, Steve worked for the UK Press Association on the City desk and at Dow Jones on the European Markets desk. At Dow Jones, Steve regularly broke market-moving stories and was a contributor to The Wall Street Journal Europe.
Before his career in journalism, Steve spent 11 years trading in the financial markets, specialising in equity and bond market derivative products. In 1988, Steve joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formerly Kleinwort Benson Securities) and worked as an equity option marketmaker before moving on to Credit Lyonnais where he became Head of the London option market-making team on Liffe.
Steve studied politics at the University of London, with a focus on world economic development, IMF, World Bank and WTO; and journalism at the National Council for Training Journalists.
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- By: Silvia Amaro
Donald Trump's concerns over international trade are understandable but the U.S. president is choosing the wrong approach to level the playing field, the U.K.'s trade chief told CNBC Wednesday.
- By: Steve Sedgwick
CNBC's Steve Sedgwick on the investing "no brainers" that the market herd is missing.
- By: Silvia Amaro
Market data will be key to deciding the ongoing oil supply-cutting deal led by OPEC, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told CNBC Friday.
Oil prices probably won't rise much beyond recent highs near $75 a barrel, according to Oman's oil minister.
- By: John Melloy
"Looks like OPEC is at it again," Trump tweets. "Oil prices are artificially Very High!
- By: Sam Meredith
OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia warned oil traders on Friday that a dramatic upswing in crude futures was little reason to become complacent.
- By: Silvia Amaro
Trade tensions between both sides of the Atlantic have calmed down in the last few weeks, a key European official told CNBC Saturday at the European House Ambrosetti Forum.
- By: Silvia Amaro
It's "very important" that Europe responds to Russia's "unprecedented" behavior, EU's Drombrovskis told CNBC.
- By: Justina Crabtree
India needs to be — and sustain — the world's next "growth miracle" to fight its poverty problem, according to a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
- By: Sam Meredith
The U.S. is wasting its time trying to fix a non-existent problem regarding its current account deficit, according to an economics professor at Harvard University.
Contact Squawk Box Europe
- Email: SquawkBoxEurope@cnbc.comTwitter: @SquawkBoxEurope
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Monday - Friday 07:00 - 10:00 CETAsia
Monday - Friday 13:00 - 16:00 SIN/HKAustralia
Monday - Friday 16:00 - 19:00 SYD
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Steve Sedgwick co-anchors CNBC's flagship program Squawk Box Europe and is also CNBC's OPEC reporter covering major meetings.
