"If you are looking at a debasement of the US dollar currency, then the local price of all the assets denominated in dollars should go up," Marino Valensise, CIO of Barings, said Monday, adding that this has become apparent in the US and the UK. "All policies signal that asset prices will go up for the time being," he said.

Euro zone October inflation was confirmed at -0.1% year-on-year Monday, in line with forecasts. “There is not an inflation problem,” Kit Juckes from ECU Group said, adding that we will get a temporary pick up in inflation, which we are advised to look through.

Telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent is betting on growth in the Asia-Pacific region as part of its plan to return to profitability after 12 consecutive quarters of losses. CEO Ben Verwaayen told CNBC “we’re on track” regarding bringing down the company’s overhead costs.

“The consumer is still pretty anemic,” Sarah Hewin from Standard Chartered Bank told CNBC Monday. Heading into 2010, the outlook “is going to be clouded by this overhang of debt” due to rising unemployment and “very weak wage growth,” she added.

“The US still has negotiating power” with China, Jacob Schmidt, CEO of Schmidt Research Partners, told CNBC Monday. While they still have room to negotiate, “it is slowly decreasing and vanishing,” he added. Hans Goetti, CIO of LGT Bank in Liechtenstein, joined the discussion.

"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.

"Momentum is (still) strong" in markets, Alan Knuckman from Agora Financial said Friday. "But we need a catalyst to keep pushing this market to the upside." Commodities and the dollar are what is driving the market, he added. James Bevan from CCLA Investment Management joins the discussion.

We are well supplied in the oil market, with inventories at record levels globally, Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxonmobil, said Friday. "The market continues to be a bit soft," he added.

The euro zone economy jumped out of recession in the third quarter, data showed Friday, but with slightly less spring than expected. "The French data came in weaker than expected," Michael Taylor from Lombard Street Research said. James Bevan from CCLA Investment Management discusses how to invest on this data.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average closed 0.4% lower Friday as lower commodity prices pushed down resource-linked shares. The Nikkei's Nozomu Kitadai has the details.

British Airways and Iberia finally agreed to a $7 billion merger Thursday after 15 months of negotiations. Howard Wheeldon from BGC Partners told CNBC that an "interesting animal" is being born.

US President Barack Obama visited Japan Friday to meet with the country's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Robert Howe from Geomatrix and Max King from Investec Asset Management discuss the Obama's visit and issues within the currency market.