Steve Sedgwick is an English financial journalist for CNBC Europe in London.

[2] He also studied journalism at the National Council for Training Journalists.

Before his career in journalism, Steve spent 11 years trading in the financial markets, specialising in equity and bond market derivative products.

In 1988, he joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formerly Kleinwort Benson Securities) and worked as an equity option market-maker before moving on to Credit Lyonnais where he became Head of the London option market-making team on LIFFE.

[2] Steve then joined CNBC Europe, initially presenting early morning programming, most recently Capital Connection, before he became a co-presenter of Squawk Box Europe in 2008.