Bertha Coombs Biography
Bertha Coombs is a reporter for CNBC, based at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. She covers business and financial news stories.
How old is Bertha Coombs? – Age
Coomb was born on 28 December 1961 in Havana, Cuba. She is 60 years as of 2021.
Where did Bertha Coombs go to school? – Education
She attended The Park School in Brookline, MA, Milton Academy in Milton, MA, and Yale University in New Haven, CT. She delivered the commencement address at Milton Academy in 2005. She started off as a reporter for WABC-TV in New York, WPLG-TV in Miami, and WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut.
Bertha Coombs – Family
Her family is from Cuba, but they later settled in Boston. She hasn’t revealed her parents’ names but her father died of lung cancer 28 years ago, so she has been raised by her mother all along. There’s no much information about her siblings.
Bertha Coombs husband
She has not shared about her love life yet.
What is Coombs’s Salary?
Coombs’s salary has been estimated to be between $45000- $250,000.
Coombs Net Worth
Coombs’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
Coombs Career
Her coverage of health care at CNBC has ranged from the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the failed launch of the Obamacare health insurance exchanges to how cancer researchers are using IBM’s Watson to improve cancer care and how doctors are using mobile technology to treat patients in their own homes. She also covered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the impact of the financial crisis of 2008, and reported on the oil markets from the floor of the New York Mercantile exchange. Before joining CNBC, Coombs was a reporter and anchor for the pioneering online business network, Yahoo Finance Vision, and served as a freelance reporter for the former CNNfn financial network. Prior, she served as a reporter for ABC News One, and a substitute anchor for “World News Now” and “World News This Morning.”
She began her career in general news, with previous reporting and anchoring positions at WABC-TV in New York, WPLG-TV in Miami and WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut.