Rounding up this week's market action, with Amy Wu, RBC Capital Markets; Sameer Samana, Wells Fargo Advisors; Ryan Lewenza, TD; and Peter Sorrentino, Huntington Asset Advisors.
Influential investors Eddie Lampert and David Bonderman share their thoughts on the U.S. economy and markets, in this excerpt from a Squawk Box appearance honoring dealmaker Richard Rainwater.
The Australian stock market has been trapped in an investment-numbing sideways trend for the past six months. But chart pattern anaysis shows that a breakout for the S&P ASX 200 is imminent, with the next target at 4,700.
Discussing the rally in the S&P 500 and whether it will continue, with Carter Worth, Oppenheimer Asset Mgmt. chief market technician. It has been 15 weeks since a correction of 4 percent or greater in the S&P.
CNBC's Steve Liesman, and Bob PIsani discuss the outlook for the markets in the coming weeks, and the Fed's monetary policy. Also, CNBC's David Faber has the details on Avon rejecting Coty's $10B takeover bid.
Sharing investment strategies since better-than-expected data on U.S. and Chinese manufacturing was announced, with Steve Auth, Federated Investors global equities CIO.
"This company reported a $15 million operating profit and it has now moved to a $15 million operating loss," says Dennis Berman, The Wall Street Journal, who discusses what Groupon has to do in order to restore its credibility and build confidence with Wall Street investors.
The S&P 500 is up for the first of four days and ''The Wall Street Journal'' reports that the average year-end forecast is 1362. Thomas Lee, JPMorgan chief U.S. equity strategist and David Darst, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney chief investment strategist, weigh in on the positive moves for the index.