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CBS MoneyWatch

personal finance website

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5009248 ↗
Source-derived summary

CBS MoneyWatch, a division of CBS News and a property of Paramount Skydance Corporation, is a personal finance website that provides advice on retirement, investing, money, work and real estate, originating from CBS's banner for its business news reporting. Launched in April 2009, the site was originally an extension of BNET.com, formerly known as the CBS Interactive Business Network. In November 2011, BNET and CBS MoneyWatch merged and migrated to the CBSNews.com platform. The executive editor of CBS MoneyWatch is Glenn Coleman.

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The public source identifies “CBS MoneyWatch” as personal finance website. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around MoneyWatch, personal and finance.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with MoneyWatch, personal and finance providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5009248. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “CBS MoneyWatch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.