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• Globalization Gets Complicated

  By: Rob Reuteman, |Special to CNBC.com

  8:54 AM ET Wed, 26 Jan 2011

  Political and business leaders invited to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos this week will sift through the blessings and curses of global interdependence that not only brought the world’s economies to a collective low three years ago but also provide the only realistic return to prosperity

In Focus

• Technology Can Improve US Education: Gates

  By: Michelle Lodge

  3:13 PM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  The use of technology and learning from other countries are two good ways to boost the US education system, Bill and Melinda Gates, cofounders of the charitable organization the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told CNBC Friday.

• Shake-Up, Yes—Major Changes, No: Google CEO

  By: Michelle Lodge

  12:12 PM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  Top management at Google plans no major changes in its direction, even though two of the top executives shifting roles in April, CEO Eric Schmidt told CNBC Friday.

• Cash Flowing Again, Will Fuel Global Recovery: Dimon

  By: CNBC.com

  6:44 PM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  Cash is flowing briskly again, two years after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and is fueling the global economic recovery, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC.

• U.K GDP Data 'Disappointing' But Fixable: Osborne

  By: CNBC.com

  11:04 AM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  The U.K.'s most recent GDP showing was disappointing, but the government can policy make adjustments to improve future performance, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne told CNBC Friday.

• BofA Doesn't Need New Capital: CEO in Davos

  By: Antonia Oprita

  5:20 AM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  Bank of America does not need to raise fresh capital to comply with the new regulations shaping the financial world and the quality of its credit portfolios is getting better, CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC.

• Chinese Demand Driving Commodities Rally: Dow Chemical CEO

  By: CNBC.com

  7:52 AM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  China's red-hot economy is fueling inflationary gains in commodities prices, but inflation in emerging markets is nevertheless 'looking manageable" at this point, Dow Chemical  boss Andrew Liveris told CNBC in Davos.

• Stiglitz in Davos: US Needs to Change How It Spends

  By: Antonia Oprita

  6:08 AM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  The US needs to change the way it is spending money if it wants to ensure a sustainable recovery, Joseph Stiglitz, economy professor at Columbia and a Nobel prize laureate, told CNBC Friday from Davos.

• Shell CEO on BP Bid Rumor: We Grow Organically

  By: Antonia Oprita

  4:56 AM ET Fri, 28 Jan 2011

  Royal Dutch Shell is seeking to grow organically and sees demand for oil and gas rising over the next years, CEO Peter Voser told CNBC Friday in an interview from Davos.

• Business Spending on IT Robust: Dell

  8:06 AM ET Thu, 27 Jan 2011

  Dell founder Michael Dell said networking services to accommodate the wireless craze is now the company's strongest business.

• Stock Markets Are 'Overpriced': Robert Shiller

  By: Antonia Oprita

  11:57 AM ET Thu, 27 Jan 2011

  Stock markets in the developed world have risen too much, Robert Shiller, economics professor at Yale, told CNBC Thursday. 

• Progress Made On Wall Street Pay: Frank

  9:15 AM ET Thu, 27 Jan 2011

  Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), co-author of the Dodd-Frank law, said legislative efforts succeeded in discouraging the "perverse incentive" of the past by prompting companies to provide "more compensation in stock.

• View from Davos: The West Isn't Working

  By: Patrick Allen

  4:20 PM ET Mon, 31 Jan 2011

  At the World Economic Forum in Davos, CNBC held a keynote session asking if the rise of the East is assured and what that will mean for the jobs market in America and Europe.

• China Can Stop Europe's Debt Crisis: Niall Ferguson

  By: CNBC.com

  7:04 AM ET Thu, 27 Jan 2011

  China could purchase large amounts of struggling European debt at bargain prices, taking away a major threat to the euro zone, Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson told CNBC.

• A Little Inflation Good for the Global Economy: Soros

  By: CNBC.com

  1:15 PM ET Wed, 26 Jan 2011

  Higher commodities prices and an uptick in China's inflation rate  are putting the global economy in a better situation by cutting the potential for deflation, George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, told CNBC Wednesday.

• President's Address 'Business Focused': Schwarzman

  By: CNBC.com

  8:46 AM ET Wed, 26 Jan 2011

  Stephen Schwarzman, founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, called the State-of-the-Union speech part of a welcome move to the center following the midterm elections.

• Roubini on Spending Freeze

  By: CNBC.com

  3:19 AM ET Wed, 26 Jan 2011

  The White House plan to partially freeze government spending is just "spare change" compared to a budget deficit of more than $1 trillion and eventually the US will have to raise taxes, economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC Wednesday.

• Say Goodbye To New Normal

  By: Jennifer Leigh Parker,|Special to CNBC.com

  2:52 PM ET Tue, 25 Jan 2011

  The catchy and no doubt memorable phrase coined by Pimco boss Bill Gross amid the financial crisis is rapidly disappearing from Wall Street’s lexicon—and probably Davos' as well.

• CNBC Debate: Boost Jobs by Education, Entrepreneurs

  By: Kim Khan

  1:20 PM ET Wed, 26 Jan 2011

  A focus by countries on developing a skilled workforce through improvements in education is necessary, according to participants in a CNBC debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

• Divided But Standing

  By: Antonia Oprita

  2:56 PM ET Tue, 25 Jan 2011

  At least for this year, the euro zone will remain united  and no country is likely to default, analysts told CNBC.com. But debt restructuring is on the horizon for later.

• China Redraws The World Trade Map

  By: Alex Frew McMillan,|Special to CNBC.com

  2:57 PM ET Tue, 25 Jan 2011

  Though the US-China relationship often dominates the geopolitical trade debate, Beijing is now the top trading partner for Japan, Australia and South Africa, as well as South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

• A Continental Shift In Latin America

  By: Mark Koba

  2:05 PM ET Mon, 24 Jan 2011

  After decades of boom to bust behavior, economies  from Mexico to Brazil are looking dynamic, diverse and  durable, helped by a wealth of natural resources and a good measure of fiscal discipline.

• Tech Assuming A Global Shape

  By: John Moore,|Special to CNBC.com

  2:52 PM ET Tue, 25 Jan 2011

  As demand for technology rises in the larger emerging markets, U.S.-based companies will find both more opportunities and competition for their products overseas.

• Green Grows Limited Leaders

  2:54 PM ET Tue, 25 Jan 2011

  Global leadership in the sector is still fragmented—the U.S. China, Brazil and Israel can all lay claim in certain fields—but there's no doubt the sector’s center of gravity is moving slowly from the developed economies to the emerging markets.

• Big World For Investors

  By: Mark McLaughlin,|Special to CNBC.com

  2:55 PM ET Tue, 25 Jan 2011

  Government policymakers in Davos this week looking to revive growth might want to emulate global mutual-fund managers, who are having no trouble finding growth stories across the developing world and in pockets of developed markets.

• Frontier Markets Come Of Age

  By: Mark McLaughlin|Special to CNBC.com

  2:56 PM ET Tue, 25 Jan 2011

  Political instability  and business corruption make these markets risky, but they have a place in the portfolios of investors looking for explosive growth.

Heard in Davos Blog

• Heard in Davos 2011

  2:22 PM ET Fri, 30 July 2021

  While topics for discussions, debates and panels at Davos are carefully planned ahead of times, breaking news has a way of taking over the agenda.

Interactive Features

• Davos 2011: CNBC Poll

  11:35 AM ET Mon, 24 Jan 2011

  While Europe struggles with its sovereign debt crisis, the U.S. is running up enormous budget deficits of its own. Which is in worse financial shape.

• Davos and the World Economy

  By: CNBC.com

  2:13 PM ET Tue, 17 May 2011

  See if you could your own at the meeting of economic, business and political leaders.

Slideshow

• The Faces of Davos 2011

  11:36 AM ET Wed, 8 June 2011

  The World Economic Forum attracts the rich, famous and powerful, not to mention its fair share of philanthropists, academics, artists, activists and visionaries.