Deirdre Bolton is an American

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who is a current

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correspondent. She previously was the host of ''Risk & Reward'' on

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. Bolton lives in

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Biography

Deirdre Bolton graduated from the

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with a degree in English and French literature in 1993. She graduated from Council Rock High School in Bucks County Pennsylvania in 1989. Bolton holds a master's degree from

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. She is married to Lawrence Lease and has two children. Bolton formerly anchored Bloomberg Television's ''Money Moves'', a show about alternative investments. She started at Bloomberg in 2009. On January 31, 2014, she left Bloomberg for Fox Business News to host a new business show ''Risk & Reward''. However, Bolton was absent from the show for nearly a year due to an injury she sustained in the summer of 2016 that required a long recovery period.

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ABC News - ''Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton on the Recent Report Showing Home Prices are Rising'' 10.27.09
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