page_title: Melissa Lee (journalist)
hierarchical_section_title: Melissa Lee (journalist)
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context_page_description: Melissa Lee is a reporter and news anchor for CNBC. Since January 2009, she has occasionally hosted Closing Bell when the anchor is unavailable. She has also hosted Options Action, and is now the host of CNBC's 5pm ET daily show Fast Money and Money in Motion: Currency Trading.
  Lee took over as host of CNBC's 5pm ET daily show, Fast Money when Dylan Ratigan left CNBC for companion network MSNBC on March 27, 2009. She was the interim host after Ratigan's departure, until April of the same year when she was appointed permanent host. Lee has received two Emmy Award nominations for Business News.
  Melissa has hosted six CNBC documentaries:
  Made in China: The People's Republic of Profit
  Coca-Cola: The Real Story Behind the Real Thing
  Porn: Business of Pleasure
  The $50M Con
  Code Wars: America's Cyber Threat
  Bitcoin: Boom or Bust
  As of 2013, Melissa Lee hosts 3 CNBC programs: Fast Money, Options Action, and Money in Motion: Currency Trading. Since February 9, 2015, Lee is one of four hosts for Power Lunch.
context_section_description: Melissa Lee (born November 4, 1974 in Great Neck, New York) is a reporter and news anchor for CNBC. Since January 2009, she has occasionally hosted Closing Bell when the anchor is unavailable. She has also hosted Options Action, and is now the host of CNBC's 5pm ET daily show Fast Money and Money in Motion: Currency Trading.
  Lee took over as host of CNBC's 5pm ET daily show, Fast Money when Dylan Ratigan left CNBC for companion network MSNBC on March 27, 2009.  She was the interim host after Ratigan's departure, until April of the same year when she was appointed permanent host. Lee has received two Emmy Award nominations for Business News.
  Melissa has hosted six CNBC documentaries:
  Made in China: The People's Republic of Profit
  Coca-Cola: The Real Story Behind the Real Thing
  Porn: Business of Pleasure
  The $50M Con
  Code Wars: America's Cyber Threat
  Bitcoin: Boom or Bust
  As of 2013, Melissa Lee hosts 3 CNBC programs: Fast Money, Options Action, and Money in Motion: Currency Trading. Since February 9, 2015, Lee is one of four hosts for Power Lunch.
caption: Melissa Lee on the set of CNBC's Squawk on the Street
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