Melissa Lee is a financial news anchor and host at CNBC who covers markets, trading, and crypto across multiple programs. Melissa Lee's Twitter Score is 75 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #10,717 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Melissa Lee joined CNBC as a reporter and anchor, and currently hosts two flagship programs: Fast Money, an investing and trading show covering stocks, options, commodities, and exchange-traded funds, and Closing Bell Overtime. She previously hosted Squawk on the Street and Power Lunch on the network. Before joining CNBC, she formerly worked at Bloomberg Television and CNN Financial News.
Melissa Lee has also brought crypto coverage to a broader audience, having hosted the CNBC documentary Bitcoin: Boom or Bust. Her account has attracted 182,966 followers as of September 2026 and has generated 11,822 posts. She has been mentioned by 236 accounts a total of 1,243 times.
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The accounts that follow Melissa Lee include 222 founders, 47 angel investors, 114 influencers and 15 VCs. Among her notable followers are Marc Andreessen, Laura Shin, Michael Saylor, Chris Burniske, Andrew Kang and Meltem Demirors.