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Diana Olick is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, currently serving as CNBC's real estate correspondent as well as the author of the Realty Check blog on CNBC.com. She also contributes her real estate expertise to NBC's "Today" and "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams." Olick launched the real estate beat at CNBC during the housing boom in 2004. She rode the beat from boom to bust, reporting on the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the housing crash, the government's housing bailout, the "robo-signing" foreclosure paperwork scandal and ensuing mortgage lawsuits and settlements involving the nation's largest banks. She is often a guest and/or moderator at major mortgage and real estate industry events. Prior to joining CNBC in 2002, Olick spent seven years as a correspondent for CBS News. Olick began her career as a local news reporter at WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine; WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich.; and KIRO-TV in Seattle. She joined CBS in 1994 as a New York-based correspondent for the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and "The Early Show." She also contributed pieces to "48 Hours" and "Sunday Morning." In 1995, Olick was assigned to cover the Midwest as a Dallas bureau correspondent. In the three years she was there, she covered all forms of natural disaster, including the crash of TWA Flight 800, the JonBenet Ramsey murder mystery and was the exclusive correspondent for the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols. During that time, she also took a temporary assignment in CBS' Moscow bureau, where she chronicled the brief presidential campaign of Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1998, Olick was reassigned to the New York bureau and then immediately posted to Bahrain for the buildup to a possible second Gulf War. A year later, she went to Albania to cover the U.S. military buildup during the conflict in Kosovo. Upon her return, Olick was reassigned to CBS' Washington bureau and the Capitol Hill beat. During Campaign 2000, Olick covered the Senate campaign of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and later joined the Bush campaign as a special correspondent for "The Early Show." That fall, she was named Supreme Court correspondent; her first case was Bush v. Gore. Olick has a B.A. in comparative literature with a minor in soviet studies from Columbia College in New York and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

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  Mortgage rates surge over 7% as tariffs hit bond market

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  Apr. 11, 2025

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  Mortgage rates surge over 7% as tariffs hit bond market

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  Apr. 11, 2025

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  Here's how China could crush the U.S. housing market

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  Apr. 09, 2025

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CNBC

CNBC, or the Consumer News and Business Channel, is a prominent global business news television channel that launched on April 17, 1989. Founded by former NBC President Bob Wright, CNBC aims to provide viewers with insights into how business events impact their lives and finances. The network has grown to become the world's leading business news media company, reaching over 450 million consumers each month. CNBC offers a variety of services, including 23 hours of live TV programming each weekday, featuring popular shows like *Squawk Box* and *Fast Money*. It operates a 24/7 digital platform that delivers real-time news, analysis, and market data through its website and mobile apps. Additionally, CNBC provides subscription-based services for exclusive content and hosts numerous business events and conferences for networking among executives and thought leaders. With a global presence and more than 20 bureaus worldwide, CNBC also tailors its content for regional audiences through channels like CNBC Asia and CNBC Europe.