Dr Amit Roy, managing director and head of healthcare research at Nomura, tells CNBC that the ability to keep making new blockbuster drugs depends on the medicine.
David Scowsill, president and CEO of World Travel and Tourism Council, says the UK is losing out big time on Chinese tourists because of the UK visa policies.
Prashant Sawant, convertible bond specialist at KNG Securities, tells CNBC infrastructure is a key challenge for India, and an opportunity for the U.K.
Nancy McKinstry, CEO at Wolters Kluwer, tells CNBC that Europe remains challenging but their North American and Asian businesses were able to grow fast enough to overcome these challenges.
Keith Woolcock, partner at 5th Column Ideas, says the Dell-story tells the PC cycle is dead, but the Apple share price indicates the end of cycle for smartphones, adding the few tech stocks worth investing in are already on very high PE.
Elsa Lignos, G10 currency strategist at RBC, explains the communication about intervention that caused the New Zealand dollar weaken against the US dollar.
Max King, portfolio manager at Investec Asset Management, tells CNBC why corporate earnings have been better than expected and why the market rally is set to continue.
Timo Soini, leader of the True Finns Party, tells CNBC why he's pushing for every generation to hold a referendum on Finland's membership of an 'immoral' European Union.
Jon Moulton, chairman of Better Capital and Christian Schulz, senior economist at Berenberg Bank, debate the impact the Italian elections could have on the rest of the euro zone.
Michael Plavnik from Citi reverse engineered Japan's inflation target saying the yen will need to weaken 40-50% in the 2-year period with dollar/yen reaching 120.
CNBC's Julia Chatterley speaks to Stefano Fassina (PD), Gennaro Migliore (SEL) and Lorenzo Cesa (UDC) about reform and the potential of a coalition with Mario Monti.
David Goldberg, homebuilders and building products analyst at UBS, says after last year's U.S. homebuilders rally there is a lot of profit-taking, so investors who want to be long in housing now, have to go further up on the risk curve to less safer names.
Nitin Bhas, senior analyst at Juniper Research, explains why the new HTC device could be a make-or-break way for the Taiwanese company to gain back market share from Apple and Samsung.
Giuliano Pisapia, the mayor of Milan, tells CNBC he is against career politicians and proud that when he goes abroad people can talk about other things than 'bunga bunga' in relation to Italy.
As Silvio Berlusconi gets set to watch AC Milan play Barcelona, CNBC's Julia Chatterley explains why he's getting a bounce in the polls before Italy's general elections this month.
Maria Pinelli, global vice chair of strategic growth markets at Ernst & Young, says institutional investors are keen to invest in initial public offerings (IPOs).
Nigel Legge, founder of investment firm Vinculum, favors "best in breed" companies with good management, consistent earnings and strong balance sheets.
Bruno Verstaete, partner, Lakefield Partners says there hasn't yet been a big move out of European bonds and into stocks and that his firm has a 40 percent allocation to stocks.