Amanda Lang, co-host of CBC's business show The Lang And O'Leary Exchange, is the senior business reporter for CBC News.

Previously, she was co-anchor of SqueezePlay, the Business News Network's nightly national talk show featuring guests and discussions about business and politics.

Before returning to Canada and to BNN in 2002, Lang was an anchor and correspondent at CNN and its business network CNNfn in New York, where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange.

She was the New York correspondent for the Financial Post in 1998 and 1999.

A part of the team that helped launch Report on Business Television (BNN), Amanda covered U.S. markets from Manhattan.

She began her career in journalism at The Globe and Mail, where she edited the Classroom Edition. During her years as a business reporter she has covered stock markets, the economy, financial instruments, the technology beat, Wall Street, Canadian and U.S. politics, and more.

She is a frequent guest speaker on business and economics. Amanda studied Architecture at the University of Manitoba.