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Fox News host Brenda Buttner dies at age 55

Feb 20, 2017 | 6:45 PM

NEW YORK — Brenda Buttner, host of Fox News Channel’s “Bulls and Bears” has died after a battle with cancer. She was 55.

Buttner served as CNBC’s Washington correspondent and hosted the network’s “The Money Club” before joining Fox News in 2000.

Buttner graduated from Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto paid tribute to Buttner on his show “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” He praised her intelligence and sense of humour, saying “business journalism is never going to be the same.”

Fox News announced her death on Monday.

The Associated Press

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