Maria Bartiromo on CNBC Europe

CNBC Europe's Squawk Box is being co-presented this week by CNBC US' Maria Bartiromo, in a rare presenter exchange. Bartiromo has actually anchored Squawk Box Europe once before, on the morning after a European business awards ceremony. Guy Johnson is co-presenting with her, with Geoff Cuthmore apparently gone on holidays for a few weeks.

Looks like Maria has been doing a tour of Europe after the stint she did on CNBC Asia Squawk Box.

On other related note, I'm currently testing CNBC plus - a online streaming service from CNBC.com (which is relaunching soon) which streams CNBC US, Asia and Europe.

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I think it will be a pay service - not sure if its worth it. I would rather they show the ads than block them out. However, living in student house means I don't have any other opportunity to watch the channel!

I always found it strange how CNBC (US) did not have its own website. Piggybacking on another company (MSN)'s website seemed a strange thing for "the world leader in business news" to do! Looks like the new site will be good, pity it will be a subscription service.