John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, tells CNBC he's concerned about the strength of the New Zealand dollar and wants to see a correction there. He speaks to CNBC's Martin Soong in a First on CNBC interview.

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

Phil Roberts from Barclays Capital takes a technical look at the dollar versus the Swiss franc, nickel and the S&P 500.

The global financial crisis did not present that many acquisition opportunities for YTL, says its managing director, Francis Yeoh. He tells CNBC's Managing Asia why.

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

Retailer Kathmandu makes its trading debut Friday. Fabiola Gibson, first vice president at Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney speaks to Simon Warner, head of Macro Markets at AMP Capital and CNBC's Karen Tso about her expectations for the listing.

"There's still so much money on the sidelines that I think that's going to buffer any real severe double dip," Ken Kamen, President of Mercadien Asset Management told CNBC Thursday when considering the economic outlook.

The economy is starting to show green shoots of recovery, but the holiday-shopping season will be key, Ken Kamen, president of Mercadien Asset Management told CNBC Thursday. Julian Pendock from Senhouse Capital joined the discussion.