U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is confident China will remain a big buyer of U.S. debt. Discussing whether this confidence is misplaced, with Par Magnusson, senior analyst at Danske Bank, speaking with CNBC's Rebecca Meehan & Maura Fogarty.
“There is no really imminent risk at the moment, in my opinion, as far as the balance sheet of banks is concerned” Cees Mass, former ING CFO, told CNBC Monday. He also said that government stimuli will not be paid back quickly and “will only be repaid if the banks are able to do so.”
One year on from the collapse of Wall Street titan Lehman Brothers and the wreckage is still being unraveled. CNBC's Ross Westgate investigates.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the near collapse of the UK banking system, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, told CNBC Monday.
"Ultimately, end users want to buy around their experience. And that means getting great video, great movies, playback video gaming and … that's what we're delivering with the graphics that we're introducing," Rick Bergman, senior vice president & global general manager at AMD, told CNBC Thursday.
CNBC and Allianz have partnered to launch a competition to identify entrepreneurs across Europe with environmentally responsible business concepts.
The CNBC European Business Leaders Awards (EBLA) program, now in its seventh year, honors those individuals who are making a difference through leadership and innovation in their industry sectors.
The future of the hotel industry
Our annual guide to Europe's top offerings for the business traveller
Technology and a new generation of cost-conscious business travellers are forcing hotels to rethink how to keep the customer satisfied. Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker reports on the latest trends in the industry
Rates and occupancy are shrinking for the hotel industry. But then so is the planet, reports Boyd Farrow
The first lesson of the financial crisis is there has to be control of the financial markets, Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, said Monday on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
New York City has been named Time Out's 'best city in the world'. Jessica Cargill-Thompson, editor of the Time Out book 'The World's Greatest Cities', told CNBC the city "just beat" London.
The Bank of England held interest rates at a record low Thursday and said it would continue with its quantitative easing program. Ruth Lea from Arbuthnot Banking Group has analysis.
The FTSE-100 is showing very positive technical signals and could rally another 10% higher, Phil Roberts from Barclays Capital told CNBC Thursday. Roberts also takes a technical look at the dollar and the yen.
The future of Vauxhall, Opel's UK brand which employs over 5,000 workers, hung in the balance Thursday after GM agreed to sell the unit to Magna. Pat McFadden, deputy UK Business Secretary, spoke to CNBC about the impact of the move.
The problem with the Bank of England is they don't get out there and talk to outside people, Roger Nightingale from Pointon York told CNBC Thursday. "When they had lunch they just had their own people and they had water," he said.
The Bank of England left interest rates at a record low of 0.5% Thursday and kept its quantitative easing program unchanged. Anthony Scott from Charles Stanley told CNBC that the move was reassuring.
