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Ken Sena, analyst at Evercore Partners, told CNBC, "I think people are actually using LinkedIn and putting up a very professional self and so companies feel much more comfortable I think, using a LinkedIn to target employees."

George Godber, founding partner at Matterley Asset Management, told CNBC, "I think we are approaching the end game, I think part of the process of the LTRO has given markets the ability not to go into full scale panic over the Greece situation."

Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS, told CNBC, "European banks are both capital and liquidity constrained, so on the back of that it is quite clear that they are not as aggressive in the Asian markets across many businesses."

Damian Reece, group head of business at The Telegraph, told CNBC, "ultimately it ought to come down to performance and when you look at the performance of the banks and the executive teams, I think whether you are a government and public shareholder or whether you are an institutional shareholder of a privately owned back the equation has to be the same."

John Woods, CIO of Citi Private Bank, told CNBC, "the number of working days in the last month or so were substantially less and so the numbers will look a bit odd, but nevertheless that import number was the stand out one for me..."

Bill Strazzullo, partner and CMS at Bell Curve Trading, told CNBC, "I don't know if it is going to be possible to sustain job increases of 200,000 a month like we saw in December and January, I think a lot of that number was a result of the unseasonably warm weather, I am a little bit sceptical."

Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Daimler, told CNBC, "we always said that 2012 will be kind of a transition year to 2013 where we expect to reach our strategic profitability levels. We have lots of investments in R and D for the years to come, significant expansion of our product portfolio, significant further reduction of CO2 emissions."

Tony Fratto, managing director, Hamilton Place Strategy, told CNBC, "China has a very hard time dealing with these macro changes in their economy, so inflation ticks up and what can China do about it, they need to take really administrative actions to the banks to try and get them to stop lending and is that what the economy needs right now?"

Miranda Carr, head of research at NSBO and Uwe Parpart, MD & Head of Research at Reorient Financial Markets, joined CNBC to talk everything China.

Carlton Neel, senior managing director at Virtus Investment Advice, told CNBC, " I think it is going to be a very positive thing for the market, if you look over the course of the last couple of years, going back to the fall of 2010 when QE 2 was announced , that was very bullish for most risk assets and certainly stocks."

Boris Epshteyn, founder of Strategy International and Vince Morgan, Democratic Candidate of NY-15 Congressional, joined CNBC to discuss the progress of the Republican primary.

Ken Kamen, president, Mercadien asset management, told CNBC, "I think we are really getting to the spot when people are realising that we are going to get some resolution, I mean this dragging on and dragging on is because no one likes to give up anything, so you wait to that last minute like this huge game of poker."