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• US Likely Added Only 125,000 Jobs in April: Goldman

  

  Goldman Sachs is turning increasingly bearish on the U.S. economy, expecting the nation to have added only 125,000 new jobs in April, as the effects of a warm winter, which buoyed employment late last year, wear off.

• Fed Doing More Harm Than Good: Boockvar

  

  The Federal Reserve is doing more harm to the U.S. economy than good by keeping interest rates artificially low and continuing its "monetary medicine", Peter Boockvar, portfolio manager and equity strategist at Miller Tabak told CNBC.

• South Korea Carmakers Bank on ‘Quality’ to Win in China

  

  Hyundai and Kia are looking to boost sales in a slowing, but crowded, China car market by positioning themselves as quality brands.

• Fed May Dangle QE3 Carrot, but Few Expect Further Easing

  

  The markets may be hoping the Federal Reserve will signal further easing at the end of its policy meeting, but experts tell CNBC, Bernanke is unlikely to follow through with more easing. Rather, some economists say, rates are headed higher before the end of 2014.

• Western Equities to Outperform Asian Peers in 2012: Pros

  

  While developed and emerging market stocks have been locked in a neck to neck race so far this year, strategists tell CNBC developed market equities are likely to outperform their Asian peers in 2012.

• Improved Firewall Should Prevent Debt 'Ebola': OECD's Gurria

  

  The latest boost in the International Monetary Fund’s lending power should help in preventing a potential debt 'Ebola' from contaminating the rest of Europe, Angel Gurria, the Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) told CNBC on Tuesday.

• IMF May Withhold Money to Ensure Europe Does More

  

  A potential change of government in France and the Netherlands is raising concerns that Europe may backtrack on the fiscal consolidation needed to deal with the region's debt crisis, but David Lipton, IMF's first deputy managing director told CNBC he's not that concerned, and said the organization won't lend money until it is sure governments are dedicated to policy changes.

• MGM Resorts Can Weather Repeat of 2008 Crisis: CEO

  

  MGM Resorts International is in far better shape than it was four years ago and should be able to weather another economic storm should there be a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis, says CEO Jim Murren.

• CEOs of Big Hotel Chains Unfazed by China’s Slowing Growth

  

  China’s slowing economy isn’t deterring CEOs of the world’s biggest international hotel chains, who describe the Chinese market as the “most important in the world” and are keeping their aggressive expansion plans for the country in tact.

• Chinese, Korean Stocks Should Outperform Even As Emerging Markets Pull Back

  

  An expected strengthening of the U.S. dollar in the second quarter could mean a more "challenging environment" for emerging market stocks but China and Korean markets should outperform, says a senior strategist.

• Ireland’s Recovery a ‘Template’ for Europe, World: Templeton

  

  Ireland has quietly slipped from the headlines besieging the debt-ridden euro zone, and perhaps for good reason.

• Which City Will Be the Next Yuan Trading Hub?

  

  China’s weekend decision to widen its currency’s trading band has sparked a debate on where the next yuan offshore trading center will be located. While Hong Kong holds the lead for the amount of international trade settled in yuan, other financial centers like Singapore and London are competing to be crowned the next yuan offshore hub.

• Merger Is Not the Most Effective Way to Expand: HK Exchange Chairman

  

  Mergers and acquisitions are not necessarily the best way for a stock exchange to expand, according to the Chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Ronald Arculli.

• Emerging Market Stocks are a 'Great Place to Be': CEO

  The balance of financial power is moving towards emerging markets, such as Asia and Latin America, James McCaughan, CEO of Principal Global investors, of one of the largest asset management firms, told CNBC on Friday.

• Yoshikami: Buffett Bashers Unite!

  

  After Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times restating his belief that the intervention of the government was a success, and in published reports reiterated his view that taxes should be raised on the affluent, critics howled...It is my view that anti-Buffett rhetoric is really a smokescreen for critics protesting the interventionist activities of the Bush and Obama administrations when financial markets froze in 2008.

• North Koreans Unveil Vast New Plant for Nuclear Use

  

  North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of atomic bomb, the New York Times reports.

• US Fears Grow Over Catching Japan Economy Slowdown

  

  American policy makers have long been confident, even during the darkest days of the current financial crisis, that the United States could avoid the fate of Japan and its two lost decades. But that has changed, reports the New York Times.

• Chinese Computer Trumps US One as World's Fastest

  

  A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower. The New York Times reports.

• In India, Workers Find Humor in ‘Outsourced’

  

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• Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened

  

  Like many members of Japan’s middle class, Masato Y. enjoyed a level of affluence two decades ago that was the envy of the world. Masato, a small-business owner, bought a $500,000 condominium, vacationed in Hawaii and drove a late-model Mercedes.