Andrew Economos, Head of Sovereign & Institutional Strategy, Asia at JP Morgan Asset Management, says Bernanke will err on the side of caution as the U.S. economy is still much weaker than expected.
Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Nippon Yusen reached a joint venture agreement with the U.S. firm Sempra Energy. The project, estimated to cost $10 billion, plans to produce 12 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year by 2017, or equivalent to 10% of annual Japanese demand. The Nikkei's Sachiko Kishida reports.
Angus Geddes, CEO at Fat Prophets describes why he likes small to mid cap Australian industrial stocks and states which sectors will benefit most from the lower Australian dollar.
Michael Spencer, Chief Economist, Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank says Japan's radical quantitative easing program will not be sufficient to sustain growth. He believes structural reform is more important.
Tim Smith, North Asia CEO of Maersk Line says a reduction in costs helped first-quarter earnings swing back into the black from a loss a year ago. He says new capacity coming into the Chinese market are driving freight rates down.
Chanitr Charnchainarong, Executive Vice President of Thailand's Stock Exchange says the pipeline for new listings looks healthy as more firms from diversified sectors apply.
Michael Spencer, Chief Economist, Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank, says that in three to six months it will be obvious to investors that there is growth in Asia.
Chris Bertelsen, CIO at Global Financial Private Capital, shares his incite into the US QE and when to expect the effects, and which stocks are going to be great opportunities in the US market.
Brendan Brown, Head of Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International says the Australia carry trade is at the beginning of an implosion and other emerging market carry trades might follow the same path.
John Noonan, Senior FX Analyst at Thomson Reuters says a bearish AUD is the dominating trade in the macro fund community.
Dhiren Sarin, Chief Technical Strategist, Asia Pacific at Barclays gives his Technical Analysis on currencies.
Dhiren Sarin, Chief Technical Strategist, Asia Pacific at Barclays says Japan is only recently catching up to the easing monetary policies of the West so it is feasible to expect the Nikkei to reach highs of 18,000.
Dhiren Sarin, Chief Technical Strategist, Asia Pacific at Barclays says don't sell in May. He charts the S&P 500 and expects the index to head towards 1,700.
Rob Enderle, President and Principal Analyst at Enderle Group, talks Icahn's Dell bid, and whether Dell will be able to turn itself around in this new cloud services industry.
Bambang Brodjonegoro, Head of Fiscal Policy at Indonesia's Ministry of Finance discusses what Indonesia plans to do when the tap of global central bank liquidity turns off.
CNBC's Tokyo bureau chief Kaori Enjoji delivers the latest on Honda's decision to renew its partnership with racing giant McLaren and re-enter the world of Formula One.
Trip Chowdhry, Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, says Dell's strategy and products are old and Michael Dell doesn't have the skills to turn the company around.
Dodge Dorland, Chairman & Chief Investment Officer at Landor & Fuest Capital Managers, says the market is not ready to have the Fed's punch bowl taken away.
Jim McCaughan, CEO of Principal Global Investors assigns grades to the heads of major central banks including Ben Bernanke, Mario Draghi and Haruhiko Kuroda.
Bruce Kasman, Chief Economist & Managing Director of Global Research at JP Morgan says that the global environment is shifting in favor of risky assets with reduced tail risks after global central bank moves.
Diane Swonk, Chief Economist at Mesirow Financial, says gridlock issues in the U.S. are exacerbating the problems for the economy and adds that the bulk of the sequester could hit in the summer next year.
Tim Piechowski, Associate Portfolio Manager at Alpine Capital Research explains why the buyout offers from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management's substantially undervalues the company.
Diane Swonk, Chief Economist at Mesirow Financial thinks the U.S central bank could taper stimulus in September, but explains why that does not mean a tightening of monetary policy.