China is unlikely to allow the yuan to appreciate rapidly, believes Jerry Lou, China strategist at Morgan Stanley. He tells CNBC's Martin Soong why, as well as when that is likely to happen.

Justin O'Brien, senior advisor at Citi, discusses the implications of Sinosteel's hostile takeover offer for Midwest, with CNBC's Oriel Morrison.

Joel Stainton from SEB Future Sales takes a technical look at the euro versus the dollar, the Eurostoxx 50 and stocks versus bonds.

Eivind Holding, CEO of Maersk Line, tells CNBC's Managing Asia that Asia is the strongest region right now and he sees a lot of activity there.

Dante Peters from Magus Financial Management and Jason Witcombe from Evolve Financial Planning joined CNBC to give their advice to investors.

Expect a tough year ahead for Incitec Pivot, says Todd Kerslake private client adviser at RBS, speaking to Glenn Rosewall, managing director and CEO of BBY and CNBC's Karen Tso.

“The period of seasonal weakness is now over,” Robin Griffiths from Cazenove Capital told CNBC Monday. The correction was less than expected, signaling that the “underlying trend is actually jolly strong,” he said, adding that markets will “go higher for longer” until next spring.

"We're at the end of this earnings cycle so I think that the market has already factored in this positive news," Alan Knuckman from Agora Financial told CNBC Friday. Knuckman looks ahead to the US trading day.