“There’s a risk in the market that we could be seeing potentially a bond collapse in the coming months,” Laura Smith from Mako Financial Markets told CNBC Monday. This risk is putting traders “on high alert to any signs of hawkishness,” she added.

“We should be very happy with the way things have evolved,” Thomas Mirow, president of EBRD, told CNBC. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, “we have seen democracies really being implemented; the rule of law being implemented; people having the opportunity to travel,” he said, adding that it is a “success story” despite the current crisis.

“This (the Middle East) is no longer an attractive area for the emerging market fund managers,” Hassan Khalil from WMG told CNBC Monday. This region is “addicted to being reliant,” he said, adding that it is “not an initiator of productivity, it is a follower and is still in majority a consumption-based and services-based economy.”

"We think equities are a great place to be ... strong companies are actually getting stronger," David Miller from Cheviot Asset Management told CNBC Monday. Neil Dwane from RCM joined the discussion.

A lot of investment bankers aren't really bankers, but more like bookies, and they aren't really receiving bonuses, but profit share, Peter Brown from MM&K told CNBC Monday.

Kraft will have to "significantly" increase its bid for UK chocolate-maker Cadbury before the deal deadline ends Monday, Simon Marshall-Lockyer from Jefferies International told CNBC. Neil Dwane from RCM joined the discussion.

“The prospects for 2010 and 2011 are dull. We’ve got too much debt to service in the next couple of years,” Neil Dwane from RCM told CNBC Monday. “Unfortunately in these fast moving markets, dull is not how people make money,” he said, adding that investors want the markets to go up or down, not tread water.

Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, uniting East and West Germany. CNBC took a look back at the wall's construction, the beginning of a modern socialist economy, and the end of the great divide.

The XETRA DAX will reach a low point, falling 6-7% at the end of this month, according to Robin Griffiths from Cazenove Capital. “The fall is exactly halfway over, so it’s not going to be a disaster,” he said, adding that the German market is in “the best place to trade with the growing parts of Asian.”

Group of 20 financial leaders head to Scotland to firm up a plan to rebalance the world economy. Bonuses may be a topic on their agenda. "The much more important thing is that we get the world economic upswing on more sustainable footing," Holger Schmieding from BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research said Friday.

It is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since the fall, Poland's inflation has gone from 600% in 1989 to 3.5% this year. Krzysztof Rybiński from Ernst&Young told CNBC the "Polish entrepreneurial spirit" is the most significant feature of the evolution of the country's economy.

The Indian central bank's purchase of gold from the IMF this week drove prices of the precious metal to new record highs. "India is the biggest consumer of gold," Nitin Jain from Kotak Mahindra said Friday. "The central bank bought gold as part of their asset class diversification."

Gold held above $1,090 an ounce Friday ahead of the US October jobs report. Charlie Morris from HSBC Global Asset Management told CNBC he isn't "particularly excited" about gold in the short term, but is bullish in the long term. "This story is not over until a typical portfolio has 5-10% invested in gold," he said.

British Airways swung to a worse-than-expected loss in the third quarter Friday, but said it sees traffic volumes stabilizing. John Strickland from JLS Consulting considers the outlook for the UK airline.

Third-quarter earnings from British Airways and Royal Bank of Scotland are like a "bucket of cold water" for investors and the UK government is "walking a tight rope" with its economic policy, Anthony Fry from Evercore Partners told CNBC Friday.

OPEC President José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos said Friday an $80 price tag for a barrel of oil is reasonable for 2010. Daniel Wills from ETF Securities spoke to CNBC about the way investors can gain exposure to oil and oil-related products.

“This rally should fail in the next couple days (and stocks will) resume the move down,” Bill McLaren, independent trader, told CNBC Friday. This move down will take at least three weeks to complete, he said, adding that “this will be followed by a strong trend up to complete in 2010 for a significant top.”

“The economy is getting better, but all is not well,” Michael Yoshikami, president of YCMNET Advisors told CNBC Friday. There is a continued easing of job losses, but consumer spending is still low, he said. Overall, “the environment is actually fairly positive for equities, and I do see it higher from here in the next 6 months,” he added.

“We really are coping well with the crisis, and it’s not so hard,” Roland Paszkiewicz from PEKAO SA Brokerage House told CNBC Friday. The outlook for 2010 and 2011 is uncertain, he said, adding that if the economy doesn’t continue to recover, “that will be the problem, and the politicians should solve it.”

Dark pools of liquidity allow investors to execute trades anonymously. "Institutions need anonymity when they trade to protect the prices that they buy and sell securities at," Seth Merrin, founder & CEO of Liquidnet, a platform for such trades, said.

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.