Investing Edge

The campaign to be France's next President is underway! The next three weeks will be crucial for France's upcoming election, according to Antonio Barroso, an analyst at Eurasia Group. He says pressure is growing on Sarkozy to narrow the gap with socialist candidate Francois Hollande.

Roelof Van Den Akker, Senior Technical Analyst at ING Wholesale Banking, joins us now for a technical look ahead. He sees trend changes for the Eurstoxx 50 Banking Index, Brent Crude and the dollar-yen. He says he expects the European banking sector to rally in the long term; Brent could be on its way to 2008 highs of around $147 a barrel and that dollar/yen has entered early stages of a bull market.

We look ahead to the EcoFin meetings on Monday and Tuesday, where investors hope a deal on Greece will be reached. Satish Pulle, portfolio manager at European Credit Management, joins CNBC to discuss.

Alexander Gunz, Fund Manager at Heptagon Capital, gives us his top stock picks, which include Tupperware Brands, ARM Holdings, Telecity and Andritz.

James Bevan, chief investment officer at CCLA Investment Management, told CNBC, "the real challenge that investors face is that markets over the last month has really been taking on a lot of risk and people are saying to themselves hmm I am not so sure about this as central bankers are still telling us that there is a lot of trouble out there, and yet still people don't want to get left behind. So I am very interested in stocks that appear to be capable of rising fasts in up markets but not falling as much in down markets."

Daniel Stillhart, portfolio manager and technical analyst at Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft Zurich, joined CNBC for a technical look at the S&P 500 index, Nasdaq 100 index and the Dax index.

Christian Morales, vice president of Intel EMEA, told CNBC, "the title of Davos is about transformation and everything we do has to transform and be transformed and keep on evolving, whether it is the segments of the industries, whether it is the sources of energy or the way the economy is being financed."

Daniel Stillhart, portfolio manager and technical analyst at Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft Zurich, joined CNBC for a technical look at the SMI index, DAX index and the NASDAQ 100 index.

John Meyer, head of Resources at Fairfax IS, told CNBC, "mining is still a good place to be, the Chinese are still buying commodities, the economy continues to grow, it may be slipping back a little bit but it's grown so much over the last decade that a bit of slippage makes relatively no difference."