[1] Byrnes appeared as a recurring panelist on Fox Business Channel stocks and investment news programs Cashin' In, Bulls & Bears and Your World with Neil Cavuto.
Byrnes, born into a Sicilian-American family,[2] was raised in northern New Jersey and is a 1992 graduate of Lehigh University with a B.A.
Byrnes later advanced her education with an M.B.A. in accounting from Rutgers University Graduate School of Management.
As a freelance business columnist, Byrnes has written columns for The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
Prior to freelancing, she spent four years as a senior writer for TheStreet.com,[4] In 2008, Byrnes released her first book, Break Down Your Money: How to Get Beyond the Noise to Profit in the Markets.