Europe Video
Valentijn Van Nieuwenhuijzen, head of strategy at ING Investment Management, tells CNBC why the early repayment of LTRO loans announced last week will only have a minimal effect on the bond market. |
Jonathan Stubbs, European equity strategist at Citigroup, tells CNBC why equities represent such good value in the current economic climate. |
Keith McGregor, head of restructuring at Ernst and Young, tells CNBC that the retail sector is omitted from the survey because they successfully reset market expectations to expect lower earnings. |
Graham Stock, chief strategist at Insparo Investment, tells CNBC that they like the growth story in Africa, with fast growing economies that are relatively immune from the global financial crisis. |
Scott Evans, head of Equity Sales at Espirito Santo Investment Bank, tells CNBC there has been a change on a macro level, as highlighted by Japan, towards fiscal expansion and inflation, which will drive markets in the short-term. |
Annalise Piazza, senior economist at Newedge, tells CNBC that the banking sector in Italy struggled to keep up with the widening of spreads and put up risky positions. |
John Bruton, former Irish Prime Minister, tells CNBC that issue of the promissory notes is a legal problem not a political problem, and politically everyone wants to find a solution. |
Karen Cho takes you through the European market open where stocks have opened flat. |
Adam Slater, managing director at Laxfield Capital, tells CNBC that their program will lend outside of prime central London but will focus on good quality properties with resilient valuations. |
Gina Sanchez, director of Equity and Asset Allocation Strategy at Roubini Global Economics, tells CNBC that the tail risks of slowing growth in China, a breakup of the euro zone and US gridlock are diminishing. |
Neil Atkinson, director of Energy Research & Analysis at Datamonitor, tells CNBC that BP are talking about suspending drilling activities in Libya following the terrorist attack in Algeria. |
Michael Cawley, deputy CEO at Ryanair, tells CNBC that the upward surprise in current results is the strong yield in the third quarter, particularly in northern Europe. |
Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel, tells CNBC it is essential that the new government in Israel puts the budget at the beginning of its term. |
Henkel CEO Kasper Rorsted questions whether Europe has completely turned the corner on its economic and political woes. |
It is difficult to export and compete with the U.S. due to the high euro/dollar exchange rate, which should be around parity, says Giuseppe Recchi, chairman of Italy's Eni. |
Amir Elstin chair of Israel Corp, the country's largest holding company, says investors are confused. "Capital markets are behaving like it is good times, but people do not understand if it is on fundamentals." |
Natural attributes - demographics and agriculture - are all in Africa's favor, says V. Shankar, executive director of Standard Chartered, and governance is improving. |
Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Saudi Arabia's finance minister, highlights the impact of Syria's crisis on neighboring Turkey and Lebanon, and in particular, Jordan. |
Work to improve the banking sector's health is still incomplete, says Jaime Caruana, general manager at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). |
Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive officer of RDIF, says Russia is one of the few countries in the world that can deliver growth, and joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) has made it more competitive. |
Maria Bartiromo gets the Davos buzz from Steve Pagliuca, MD at Bain Capital, on European optimism and the changing face of Russia. |
Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, former Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., says "nobody is doing anything" about the unrest in Syria and if the world had acted six months ago, we would not be in this "mess". |
Michael Plavnik, head of short term interest rate trading at Citigroup, says the U.K.'s worse-than-expected fourth quarter contraction is partially due to an unwinding of the London Olympics boost. He thinks the British pound will continue to weaken. |
Ashni Mohnot, founder and CEO of social enterprise Enzi, who was raised in Bombay, says India's recent high-profile rape case has motivated its citizens to change a "patriarchal" society. |
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo gets the Davos Buzz from Mark Bertolini, CEO at AETNA, on the US economy and lowering the cost of healthcare. |
Spain's struggling real economy lags behind improved market sentiment, says Luis de Guindos Jurado, Spain's minister of economic affairs. |
CNBC's Geoff Cutmore and Maria Bartiromo ask guests at the World Economic Forum in Davos to give their ideal rate of income tax for high earners. |
CNBC goes behind the scenes with Maria Bartiromo at the Davos banking debate. |
Santiago Siri, founder of Grupo 42, highlights the huge potential in Latin America for technology startups. |
Frans van Houten, CEO of Philips, tells CNBC that Phillips is focused on 'self help' despite the level of growth in the global economy. |