Bartiromo, Cavuto, Kudlow rank among "25 people who will affect your finances in 2009"

CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, the FOX Business Network's Neil Cavuto and CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow are all included on a list of the top 25 politicians, CEOs and financial gurus US News & World Report thinks will "move the markets" in 2009. 

Bartiromo, Cavuto and Kudlow rank twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth, respectively. 

Bartiromo, who anchors "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" and is the managing editor of "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo," is being hailed as "the first face of financial news during one of the worst downturns in history." 

Neil Cavuto, a regular on both the Fox News Channel and FBN, "has seen his profile rise as the financial crisis rages and the economy swoons." US News & World Report describes him as the "network's unapologetic free-market voice at a time when defending capitalism has become a tougher sell."

US News & World Report is betting on Lawrence Kudlow to openly disagree with any future tax increases on the rich by the Obama Administration. He is described as "a long-time banner-carrier for the tenets of Regan's supply-side revolution."

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