Dagen McDowell


Mary Dagen McDowell is an American anchor and analyst on the Fox Business Network and a business correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She was also a former business contributor on the Imus In The Morning radio show, and was a regular guest on FNC's Hannity.

Education and career

A native of Campbell County, Virginia, from a family of Irish background, McDowell graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in Art History. McDowell began her career as a financial journalist at the Institutional Investor's Newsletter Division.

Career with ''FOX Business Channel'' and Fox News Channel.

McDowell co-hosts "Mornings with Maria" on "Fox Business Network", Markets Now, appears regularly on Your World with Neil Cavuto and appeared on Imus in the Morning prior to Imus' death in 2019, and has been a weekly panelist for Cashin' In. She has served as a panelist on Cavuto on Business which airs on Saturday, took over hosting Bulls and Bears in 2016 following predecessor Brenda Buttner's eventually fatal cancer diagnosis, and participates in Outnumbered and The Five.

Personal life

McDowell married twice. In 2005
she married Fox News economic analyst Jonas Max Ferris. She is a vegan.