Unfortunately they have it on all day at work and can't escape it. Always disliked it, now with the new format, I despise it.
Pet Peeves:
The sound effects - the "whoosh" when they change a chart. So much noise, so little value.
The "you are here" pulsating dot and arrows on charts. Put that up there with Fox's glowing hockey puck.
The clock ticking at 1/100 of a second. Like I need nanosecond accuracy to read time and sales.
The obsession with Dow 12000. Only people who know nothing about stocks care what the Dow does.
The fact that CNBC is becoming less about stocks and more about politics, human interest stories, etc. If I want to watch Good Morning America, I'll turn that on.
The way they swing from the NYSE's jock. If you have traded any international markets for any length of time, you know how a market should work. If there are 5000 shares on the bid, and you put in an order to sell 5000 shares on the bid, you actually get to sell 5000 shares on the bid. Immediately. You don't have a specialist with a free option holding up your order and deciding whether to fill you or not. The NYSE may give you a better fill from time to time. That does not make up for all the times you go to lift an offer or hit a bid and get a "nothing done". Pisani, try and think critically for once.
The women. Maybe CNBC didn't have enough women in the past, but now it is all women. And most of them are utter morons. Liz Klaman is a ditz (I can only imagine the pictures she must have of Immelt - nothing else explains why she has a job in financial journalism), Michelle Caruso Cabrera is under the delusion that anyone gives a damn what her personal opinions are. Sharon Epperson makes George W Bush seem articulate. Sylvia Vadva has never, ever, had anything valuable to say regarding Europe (except maybe the best weinerschnitzel place in Munich). The Money Honey and the Money Moose get good marks for effort, but Cs for insight. If you must stack the program with women to keep the PC police off your back, at least put your hot rookies on (Bianca et al) and send Klaman, Caruso Cabrera, Epperson, Cooms, Vadva back down to the Single A team in Podunk where they belong. Lets face it, CNBC during trading hours is what I would imagine Lifetime / Oxygen Finance to be.
Cramer. If its at its 52-week high, you like it. Fine. Got it. Nice sound effects. Sell! Sell! Sell!
Steve Liesman. You're not an economist - you just play one on TV. So shut up and let the real economists speak, please.
Hampton Pearson. um... why are you here?
Art Cashin. Art, I loved your "Cashin Comments" back in the day, but you've been mailing it in for a long time. Whats on your pad anyway?
John Harwood. If I wanted the DNC's talking points read to me, I'd spend time on Koz. At least try and hide your partisanship.
The new ticker with company names on it. Anyone who understands how to read a ticker tape knows the symbol for 3M.
