MUMBAI: Business television host Louis Rukeyser died of cancer on Tuesday. He was 73.

Rukeyser hosted Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser on public TV from 1970 until 2002. His speciality has been the ability to convert complicated finance and economics news to simple news, which can be easily understood by ordinary viewers and investors.

Louis Rukeyser quit Wall $treet Week and moved to CNBC in March 2002. Rukeyser's last appearance on his CNBC show was 31 October 2003.

Later that year, Rukeyser asked CNBC to end production of his show due to a back problem. Rukeyser also found time to publish many best-selling books and newsletters.