Varney & Co.
Varney & Co., sometimes styled Varney & Company, is an American cable television news and talk show on the Fox Business Network hosted by British-American economic and political commentator Stuart Varney. The show includes market coverage, current events coverage, and interviews and commentary with Wall Street experts.
Hosts
- Stuart Varney, host
- Lauren Simonetti, news anchor
- Madison Alworth, news anchor
- Lydia Hu, news anchor
- Susan Li, correspondent, co-anchor
- Ashley Webster, guest host, contributor & correspondent
Audience
In February 2015, Varney & Co. reached its highest-rated month since moving to the 11am time slot, averaging 103,000 total viewers, 18,000 of whom were adults ages 25–54. Overall since the time change, the show was up 91% in total viewers and 31% among adults 25–54. On 24 August 2015, the show, which had switched to a three-hour slot from 9 am–12 pm, set the record for Fox Business Network for that block with 230,000 total viewers and 54,000 in the 25–54-year-old demographic. In February 2016, Varney & Co., still in the 9 am–12 pm slot, averaged 159,000 total viewers, up 65% from the same month one year prior.Guests
Over the years, many other well-known political figures and celebrities have appeared regularly on the show. Notable guests have included:- Nicole Petallides
- Kayleigh McEnany
- Sandra Smith, television journalist and reporter
- Henrik Fisker, entrepreneur and car designer
- Monica Crowley
- Scottie Hughes
- Melissa Francis, television journalist
- Les Gold, pawnbroker
- Mary Kissel, journalist
- Darcy LaPier, actress
- Gina Loudon, author and psychology expert
- Marc Siegel, physician
- Shmuley Boteach, Orthodox rabbi and writer
- Patrick M. Byrne, President and CEO of Overstock.com
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck, television host
- Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist
- Megyn Kelly, Fox News reporter and television host
- Tony Little, exercise instructor
- Andrew Napolitano, judge and Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News
- Katherine Schwarzenegger, writer
- Jon Taffer, bar consultant and television personality
- Abby Wambach, Olympic gold medal professional soccer player
- Harvey J. Kaye, historian
- Jonathan Greenstein, Judaica expert
- Phil Bryant, 64th Governor of Mississippi
- Austan Goolsbee, economist
- Julie Roginsky, Democratic Party strategist
- Robert J. O'Neill, former US Navy SEAL, who shot and killed Osama bin Laden in 2014
- Sam Sorbo, actress
- Pete Rose, baseball player
- Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States