Investing Edge

Egyptians head to the polls on Wednesday and Thursday next week to elect a president to replace Hosni Mubarak. It will be the first fair leadership election in the country, nearly a year and a half after the revolution which saw Mubarak ousted amid months of violent protests. Lawrence Saez, a politics professor at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, gave CNBC a preview.

Alan Clarke, UK and Euro Zone economist at Scotiabank, told CNBC, "I think it is a fairly close call but I don't think they will expand quantitative easing any further I think there is two key issues here, inflation is the enemy and the second is they don't really trust the data."

Andre Loesekrug-Pietri, chairman and managing director at A Capital, told CNBC, "We are a European private equity fund and our purpose is to invest into European companies, rather mid-sized companies which have very strong upside potential in China."

Antonio Barroso, analyst for Europe at Eurasia Group, told CNBC, "If Sarkozy wins I think we can expect pretty much that he is going to stick to the status quo, same policy measures that he has been implementing to date. In the case of Hollande it is going to be very difficult to know until the legislative elections as he wants a majority in that parliament."

Kevin Gardiner, head of global investments at Barclays, told CNBC, "On balance the key thing that makes us think that disaster will be avoided is that the ECB stands ready and is able and willing to inject more liquidity into the banking system if the banking system seems to need it."

Daniel Stillhart, portfolio manager and technical analyst at Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft, joined CNBC for a technical look at the 10-Year Bund Future and the 10-Year Treasury Note Future.

David Owen, chief European economist at Jefferies International, told CNBC, "In an ideal world none of these ratings should really matter but of course they do and it sort of reinforces the current market dynamic to focus more attention on Spanish banks but also the Spanish bond market."

Kathyrn Cooper, economics correspondent for The Sunday Times, told CNBC, "Top of the Sunday Times Hedge Fund list is Alan Howard of Brevan Howard; he is in there with a personal fortune of 1.4 billion."

Jonathan Eley, editor at Investors Chronicle, told CNBC, "Goldenport Holdings shares which were 500p each just a few years ago are now 80p, but I think now with the overcapacity being washed through the system, so that overcapacity will work through eventually and when trade does pick up profits will rise very quickly."