"A massive spike in US Treasury rates" is "one of the issues we have on our radar screens as a potential black swan," William Skeean from Edge Capital Partners said Monday. "A spike up in interest rates would be detrimental both to credit and to equities if unanticipated."

Last week was "one of those short-term dips that turns out to be a buying opportunity," William Skeean from Edge Capital Partners said Monday. Going into the end of the year, volume is likely to decline, but equity markets will continue to trade up, he added.

Some people have had a very good year and should be up 40-60% if they trailed the indices, Louis Gargour from LNG Capital said Friday. He told CNBC these people shouldn't continue to take risk as that play is likely to affect their bonus if they make any losses through until year-end.

Thailand's economy grew 1.3% in the third quarter, data showed Monday, following strong GDP figures from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Alvin Liew from Global Research Standard Chartered Bank told CNBC the Southeast Asia region "is slowly moving out of this recession due to the very aggressive stimulus packages."

The US does not have an inflation problem yet, but "within the next 12-to-16 months we could be in for a dose of serious inflation," Peter Cardillo from Avalon Partners told CNBC Monday.

Government stimulus measures will result in inflation over the coming years and that could support gold prices, Greg Smith from Fat Prophets told CNBC Monday. Smith added that gold could be due for a short-term correction. Uwe Parpart from Cantor Fitzgerald joined the discussion.

Investors are buying more qulity stocks on the dips, which is helping to support the stock market, Michael Gurka from Empower Global Funds told CNBC Friday.

"The markets right now are at a little bit of a pause," Michael Gurka from Empower Global Funds told CNBC Friday when discussing the outlook for stocks. There are growing fears of a double-dip recession, he added.

In Europe people are still looking at what went wrong instead of looking forward, Lars Thunell, CEO of IFC, told CNBC Friday. In Dubai and Asia people are looking toward future growth, he added.

The EU's choice of Herman Van Rompuy as its first president gives the union a lot of credibility and shows it doesn't pander to political pressure, Elizabeth Carey from Clontarf Capital told CNBC Friday.

The second installment of the Twilight film series opens in most countries this weekend. "The 'Twi-hard' fans will see this movie no matter what," Darryl Collis, CEO of Seesaw Media, said Friday. "There has been a lot of hype since the last movie came out back in 2008."

Japan's government said the country's economy has slipped back into deflation Friday, as the Bank of Japan operated on its economic assessment and kept interest rates on hold, as expected. Jesper Koll, president & CEO of Tantallon Research, said the government's comments are long overdue as prices have fallen for the last 10-12 months.