Charles Payne is a Fox Business Network contributor and host of Fox's Making Money with Charles Payne. He started his career working on Wall Street at E.F. Hutton and later founded Wall Street Strategies, a stock market research firm. He Payne oversees a team of stock analysts that cover specific industry groups, in addition to monitoring the entire market and individual sectors on his own.

Due to the success of his guidance and stock selections, Charles has become well sought after by many highly respected finance-oriented radio, web and television programs. He is widely recognized in the media as a leader among the analyst community and is routinely contacted for his market opinions by several prestigious news organizations.

Payne is not only widely recognized in the media sphere as a thought leader on stock markets and politics, but he is also the best-selling author of Be Smart, Act Fast, Get Rich. In his book, he helps the average investor demystify the stock market and profit from it, explained in his own unique voice.

When Payne is not in the media spotlight, he routinely gives speeches and seminars on his market and political opinions.

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