Handmade Films is set to release its newest film Planet 51 Saturday, which will have to compete with the second installment of the Twilight film series. The UK film industry is very healthy, David Ravden, CEO of Handmade Group, told CNBC.

Turkey's largest mobile phone operator, Turkcell expects sales growth to rise by 10% next year as the introduction of 3G technology will push revenues higher. "We are projecting 10% growth improvement in our EBITA margin as well," Turkcell CEO Sureyya Ciliv said Friday.

The US-China trade relationship has reached a "bit of a stalemate," according to Fabien Pictet, chairman of FPP Asset Management Friday. He sees China's consumer strength proving sustainable. He has "a huge allocation to Taiwan and Korea."

The UK's Baroness Catherine Ashton was appointed as the European Union's new foreign minister late Thursday. "I hope that the Conservatives will welcome my appointment and be proud of me as a Briton and proud of what I can do in Europe," Ashton told CNBC.

"A lot of the profits of companies that we've seen are partly artificial because governments have put in so much liquidity in the system and produced all kinds of plans," Philippe Gijsels from Fortis Global Markets said Friday. "Maybe the earnings estimates for next year are probably too optimistic." He is "wary" on the markets.

The global recovery will be partial and protracted into 2010, according to Control Risk. The consultancy firm has created a 2010 'risk map' where it analyzes the business, economic and political risk landscape for each country. Jake Stratton discusses the report's findings.

The UK government needs to focus on rebalancing the public finances, Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, told CNBC Friday. Lambert added that weakness in sterling could help restore the UK's lost manufacturing base.

The market hasn't gotten too ahead of itself. If you look at valuations measures, they appear "somewhere close to fair value," Giles Keating from Credit Suisse said Friday. "The rally has brought us back inline with some kind of neutral level," he added.

"Stocks being held hostage by the US dollar index, which is trying for a low," Bill McLaren, independent trader, told CNBC Friday. The S&P 500 is in a struggling trend that could break either higher or lower, he said.

"One of the lessons that we've learned (from the financial crisis, is) that all the banks that we thought might be too big to fail indeed are too big to fail," Willem Buiter from the London School of Economics and Political Science told CNBC Friday. "We've learned that even the worst crisis will pass," he added.

"We would like to see more mature leadership and a firmer hand, (and a) more stable environment within the EU," Bob Long, CEO of Conversus Asset Management, told CNBC after the first EU President was named Thursday.

We have significant question marks over the prospects for 2010, Yogi Dewan, founder of Hassium Asset Management, said Thursday. Investors can get good returns once they have decided what their equity exposure is relative to their bond exposure, and what their dollar exposure is relative to your base currency exposure, he added.

Colgate-Palmolive and Reckitt Benckiser "are probably some of the best managed companies in the world. And for Reckitt, this could be a very interesting deal indeed," Nick Wakefield, CIO of Orchard Wealth Management, said Thursday of reports that the two companies may link up. Wakefield has share holdings in both companies.

SABMiller, the world's second-largest brewer posted a 6% rise in earnings in the first half Thursday. "There has been a very significant rise in input costs over the last year or two," Malcolm Wyman, CFO of SABMiller.

Investec posted a 10% rise in first-half operating profit Thursday and said impairments seem to have peaked. "I think the world got into the situation it's in because risk was mispriced," Steven Koseff, CEO of Investec, told CNBC.

National Grid posted a 16% rise in first-half pretax profit Thursday and said the outlook for the full-year is strong. "This will be a strong year for National Grid," CEO Steve Holliday told CNBC.

At the moment, we are "treading water on the risk trade," Nick Carn from Odey Asset Management said Thursday. "Policy has been geared to re-inflating the bubble which it has succeeded in doing to some extent," he said, adding that investors remain wary.

The trend for oil is bullish, according to Mark Sturdy from Seven Days Ahead Thursday. He sees Nymex light sweet crude rising to $90.50 a barrel. "The story of short sterling and the short sterling futures yields strip is basically over-pessimism," he said. He sees the short sterling Dec 10 Liffe moving to 98.17 in the short term.

Portugal and Algeria qualified for the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament that will take place in South Africa late Wednesday. Chris Shillington from Extrabet.com told CNBC that Brazil is the favorite to win the World Cup final.

As long as central banks keep pumping money, then the liquidity-driven rally in assets can continue, Simon Grose-Hodge from LGT Bank in Liechtenstein told CNBC Wednesday. Didier Borowski from Societe Generale Asset Management joined the discussion.

The start of the week brings another pair of economic stimulus packages. This time it's the governments of India and Australia that are going to find ways of pushing money into their economies in an attempt to stave off the worst effects of slowing growth.