Author: Jeff Cox

Investors have little choice now but to cling to low-yielding U.S. government debt as European leaders ponder a messy Greek exit from the euro zone, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC.

Amid all the challenges facing the markets — Greece, Facebook, JPMorgan — investors face an even larger problem: They soon could be running out of safe havens for their money.

Eurobonds may be hailed by some as a potential solution to the Greek debt crisis, but likely would be met by skepticism in the open market.

Investors have reason to be nervous considering the amount of market pressures, even though the longer-term direction remains higher, noted Goldman Sachs strategist Jim O'Neill told CNBC.

If the Facebook IPO is to succeed, it will have to overcome a less-than-stellar history of similar technology offerings that started quickly but soon faltered.

With mom-and-pop investors essentially out of stocks, buying has been left to a shaky combination of foreigners and company buy-backs that has kept the 2012 rally afloat.

The JPMorgan Chase trading controversy comes at an inopportune time both for the bank and the industry as a whole, which needs to rethink they way it does business, analyst Meredith Whitney told CNBC.

Mitt Romney will win the presidential election and must make deficit reduction and job growth his first priorities, outspoken businessman Ken Langone told CNBC.

"It's dangerous for investors merely to mimic what large investors are doing, because you're always going to be late," says one market pro. "That includes not just buying but, importantly, selling."

Banks are only lending money to those who don't need it, a trend that likely will be exacerbated by the recent JPMorgan Chase big trading loss, real estate magnate Donald Trump said.

Four years after the financial crisis, bad behavior is back in corporate America, generating embarrassing headlines and posing the threat of even more rules.

Dead may be an exaggeration, but it's difficult not to worry about the health of an entity that has seen the life sapped of it since the onset of the financial crisis.

T. Boone Pickens says his effort to convert the government trucking fleet to natural gas is his last go-round with Washington politicians, whom he insists don't care about the country's energy independence

Japan is about to join Europe in the debt crisis ranks, with the two regions offering the best opportunities for investors to bet against, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass said.

LAS VEGAS — Put a room full of hedge fund pros together to talk politics and chances are pretty good that it's going to be more fun to be Karl Rove than Robert Gibbs.