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Bruno Guilmart, President & Global CEO, Kulicke & Soffa says that consumer demand is driving business growth. The firm has also opened a new facility in Singapore to capture the Asian market.

Mark Seidner, Managing Director, PIMCO says that investors have to worry about long term solvency as the Fed drains stimulus money from the system after 2012.

The recent sell-off in gold is unlikely to continue in the longer term, with the precious metal set to hit $1,900 an ounce towards the end of the year, Walter De Wet, head of commodities at Standard Bank, told CNBC.

Despite losses caused by the Thailand floods in 2011, Joe Hinrichs, president, Asia, Pacific and Africa of Ford says the automaker remains committed to the country as a production hub.

The Australian market is looking "cheap", notes Justin O'Brien, vice president, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Greg Canavan, editor of Sound Money, Sound Investments, however, is taking a more cautious stance. They share their views with CNBC's Oriel Morrison.

Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, told CNBC, "We are looking at these scarce resources like water, energy and food together and how they will develop over the next few decades as there will be more stresses with these. Water and energy go together because if we need more energy we need more water."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, told CNBC, "We have to say that we also have to be able to rely on each other, that is to say the commitments we have entered into on both sides, on the one hand the solidarity we have shown towards Greece and on the other hand the fulfillment of the commitments of the memorandum, these are two sides of the same coin."