Banks have been cutting back drastically on their expense bills in the wake of the subprime crisis to try and save coasts. Michael Rendell from PricewaterhouseCoopers considers the move.

Citigroup confirmed plans Friday to sell as much as $400 billion worth of non-core assets over the next two to three years. Daniel Alpert from Westwood Capital has analysis.

Independent analyst Susanne Marschner takes a technical look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The price of crude oil continued to hit new record highs this week. John Kilduff from MF Global considers what has been driving the commodity and where prices will go from here.

The banking sector has written off hundreds of billions of dollars since the start of the credit crunch, but are the troubles nearing an end? Bob Parker from Credit Suisse discusses with CNBC's Guy Johnson.

M&A activity is coming back and making investors realize that certain stocks are relativity cheap, according to Andy Brough from Schroders.

Marc Rivalland from Investor's Chronicle takes a historical look at the FTSE-100 to look for buy and sell signals.

Jean-Claude Trichet left the European Central Bank's monetary policy unchanged Thursday, as expected. Aris Xenofos, president of the Association of Greek Institutional Investors considers the outlook.

Kit Juckes from Royal Bank of Scotland has a round up of the fixed income market.