Background and career
Amanda Lang (born 31 October 1970) is a Canadian business journalist, chief financial correspondent for CTV News, and host of Taking Stock, a weekly business news program on CTV, BNN Bloomberg and CP24. Previously, she was the host of Bloomberg North on Bloomberg TV Canada. Lang was formerly senior business correspondent for CBC News, where she anchored The Exchange with Amanda Lang daily on CBC News Network. Prior to her work with CBC, she worked as a print journalist for Canadian national newspapers and was an anchor for CNNfn and BNN.
Lang's father is Otto Lang, a Liberal party MP and federal cabinet member during the 1960s and 1970s. Lang's stepfather, Donald Stovel Macdonald, was also a federal Liberal Cabinet member. Lang is one of six siblings, including her identical twin sister, Adrian Lang, an executive at Staples Canada, Elisabeth Lang, the Superintendent of Bankruptcy of Canada, and Timothy Lang, a non-profit leader. She is an avid reader, runner and cyclist. Lang attended St Mary's Academy, a private Catholic girls' school in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She later studied architecture at the University of Manitoba.
Lang began her journalism career in print at The Globe and Mail in the InfoGlobe unit. She then moved to the National Post (then the Financial Post) as their New York correspondent.
She got her start in television with what was then RoBTV (now BNN) in 1999, in New York, before moving to CNN in 2000 where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange for American Morning, and anchored programs on CNN's then-financial network, CNNfn. In 2002, she returned to CTV and RoBTV, before anchoring Squeezeplay with Kevin O'Leary and The Commodities Report in 2003. Lang left SqueezePlay and BNN in July 2009.
In 2010, Lang and O'Leary moved to CBC and launched The Lang & O'Leary Exchange. Upon O'Leary's departure in 2014, the show was rebranded as The Exchange with Amanda Lang. While at the CBC, Lang's coverage ranged from the Occupy Movement, to the high-profile NSA leak by Edward Snowden, to questions of increasing wealth inequality. In 2010, Lang won a Gemini award in the category of Best Host or Interviewer in a News Information Program or Series. Other nominees included Heather Hiscox of CBC News Now and Erica Johnson of Marketplace. During her time at CBC Lang also worked as Senior Business Correspondent reporting for The National. Her book, The Power of Why, came out in 2012. Touted as a possible successor for Peter Mansbridge on The National, the 42-year-old Lang made Toronto Life's 2012 '50 Most Influential People in Toronto' annual list.
Lang became a host of Bloomberg TV Canada's Bloomberg North in early-2016. Following the September 2017 wind-down of the network, Bell Media hired Lang once again for Business News Network (which had announced that it would become a co-branded franchise of Bloomberg Television, BNN Bloomberg), where she co-hosted Bloomberg Markets as part of a co-production arrangement for the program. Since 2025, Lang has been the chief financial correspondent for CTV News, appearing across several Bell/CTV platforms including CTV National News, BNN Bloomberg, CTV News Channel, and CP24. She has hosted the weekly show Taking Stock on BNN Bloomberg since 2022.
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
